Lamentations 3:42
Good News Translation
"We have sinned and rebelled, and you, O LORD, have not forgiven us.

New Revised Standard Version
We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.

Contemporary English Version
"We've sinned! We've rebelled against you, and you haven't forgiven us!

New American Bible
We have rebelled and been obstinate; you have not forgiven us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.

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Lamentations 1:18 Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity.

Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

Nehemiah 9:26 But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies.

Job 33:27,28 He shall look upon men, and shall say: I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved. . . .

Jeremiah 3:13 But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord.

Daniel 9:5-14 We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy judgments. . . .

Luke 15:18 I will arise and will go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee.

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2 Kings 24:4 And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

Jeremiah 5:7,8 How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house. . . .

Ezekiel 24:13 Thy uncleanness is execrable: because I desired to cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee.

Zechariah 1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always?

Context
God's Justice
41Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens. 42Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.43Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.…
Cross References
2 Kings 24:4
And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

Nehemiah 9:26
But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies.

Psalm 107:11
Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High:

Jeremiah 5:7
How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house.

Jeremiah 5:9
Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?

Jeremiah 14:20
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Daniel 9:5
We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy judgments.

Lamentations 3:41
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