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Jeremiah 14:20 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 14 · verse 20
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.Jeremiah 14:20 · King James Version
Jeremiah 14:20 in context
18If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
21Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
22Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- acknowledgeyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- wickednessreshaʻa wrongH7562 →
- iniquityʻâvônperversityH5771 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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The present deplorable state of Judah and Jerusalem is here made the matter of the prophet's lamentation (Jer 14:17, Jer 14:18) and the occasion of his prayer and intercession for them (Jer 14:19), and I am willing to hope that the latter, as well as the former, was by divine direction, and that these words (Jer…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-22