Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
Parallel translations
- KJV O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
- BSB O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
- NKJV “O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
- NASB Open shame belongs to us, Lord, to our kings, our leaders, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
- NLT O Lord, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.
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Cross-references · 6
- Dan 9:6–7neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
- Lam 3:42“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
- Lam 1:7–8Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her, The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.
- Lam 1:18“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
- Jer 14:20We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
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