Lamentations 3:42
New International Version
“We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.

New Living Translation
“We have sinned and rebelled, and you have not forgiven us.

English Standard Version
“We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.

Berean Standard Bible
“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

King James Bible
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

New King James Version
We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.

New American Standard Bible
We have done wrong and rebelled; You have not pardoned.

NASB 1995
We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned.

NASB 1977
We have transgressed and rebelled, Thou hast not pardoned.

Legacy Standard Bible
We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.

Amplified Bible
We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned.

Christian Standard Bible
“We have sinned and rebelled; you have not forgiven.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.

American Standard Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
We have done evil and we have rebelled and you did not forgive

Brenton Septuagint Translation
We have sinned, we have transgressed; and thou hast not pardoned.

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

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

English Revised Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"We have been disobedient and rebellious. You haven't forgiven us.

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

International Standard Version
As for us, we have sinned and rebelled; but you have not pardoned us.

JPS Tanakh 1917
We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.

Literal Standard Version
We have transgressed and been rebellious, | You have not forgiven.

Majority Standard Bible
“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

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

NET Bible
"We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven."

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

New Heart English Bible
We have transgressed and have rebelled, and you have not forgiven.

Webster's Bible Translation
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

World English Bible
“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.

Young's Literal Translation
We -- we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou -- Thou hast not forgiven.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God's Justice
41Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: 42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.” 43You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.…

Cross References
2 Kings 24:4
and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.

Nehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Psalm 107:11
because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

Jeremiah 5:7
"Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

Jeremiah 5:9
Should I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 14:20
We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

Daniel 9:5
we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.


Treasury of Scripture

We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.

transgressed

Lamentations 1:18
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

thou

2 Kings 24:4
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

Jeremiah 5:7,8
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses…

Ezekiel 24:13
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

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Lamentations 3
1. The prophet bewails his own calamities
22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37. He acknowledges God's justice
55. He prays for deliverance
64. And vengeance on his enemies














(42) We have transgressed . . .--The verses that follow (Lam 3;42-47) give the prayer which answers to the call of Lamentations 3:41. Both pronouns are emphatic: The suppliant has sinned and God has not yet pardoned, in the sense of ceasing to punish.

Verse 42. - We... thou. The pronouns are expressed in the Hebrew, and are meant to be spoken with emphasis.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“We
נַ֤חְנוּ (naḥ·nū)
Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's 5168: We

have sinned
פָשַׁ֙עְנוּ֙ (p̄ā·ša‘·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 6586: To break away, trespass, apostatize, quarrel

and rebelled;
וּמָרִ֔ינוּ (ū·mā·rî·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 4784: To be contentious or rebellious

You
אַתָּ֖ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

have not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

forgiven.”
סָלָֽחְתָּ׃ (sā·lā·ḥə·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5545: To forgive, pardon


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