We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Parallel translations
- WEB We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
- BSB We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
- NKJV We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, We have done wickedly.
- NASB ¶We have sinned like our fathers, We have gone astray, we have behaved wickedly.
- NLT Like our ancestors, we have sinned. We have done wrong! We have acted wickedly!
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Quick answer
The psalmist confesses, 'We have sinned with our fathers; we have done wickedly.' It matters because honest confession of sin opens the way to mercy.
Overview
Here the psalm turns to corporate confession, identifying with the sins of past generations. This humble admission of guilt sets the tone for the whole psalm's recounting of rebellion. Such confession reflects the heart God seeks and points to the forgiveness offered through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Neh 9:16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
- Ps 78:8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
- 1 Kgs 8:47Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
- Ezra 9:6–7And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
- Neh 9:32–34Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
- Dan 9:5–8We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
- Lev 26:40If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
- Matt 23:32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
- Jer 3:25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
- Neh 1:7We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
- Acts 7:51–52Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- Num 32:14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
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