We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.
Parallel translations
- WEB “We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
- KJV We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
- BSB “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
- NASB We have done wrong and rebelled; You have not pardoned.
- NLT “We have sinned and rebelled, and you have not forgiven us.
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Quick answer
The people confess they have sinned and rebelled, and acknowledge God has not yet pardoned them.
Overview
This honest confession owns both transgression and rebellion as the cause of their suffering. The painful admission that 'You have not pardoned' expresses the felt weight of unforgiven sin and unresolved judgment. Such confession is the necessary prelude to grace, which is freely offered in Christ to all who repent (1 John 1:9).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Jer 5:7–9“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.
- Luke 15:18–19I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
- Neh 9:26“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
- Jer 3:13Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says Yahweh.”
- 2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
- Ezek 24:13In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
- 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.
- Zech 1:5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
- Job 33:27–28He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
- Dan 9:5–14we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
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