Lamentations 3:42
“We are the ones who sinned; we are the ones who rebelled; and you haven't forgiven us!”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
In Context
41Let's not just hold up our hands to God in heaven, but our minds as well, saying,
Cross References
2 Kings 24:4filling Jerusalem with their blood. The Lord was not willing to forgive this.
Nehemiah 9:26But they completely rebelled against you. They tossed your Law over their shoulders. They killed your prophets who warned them to try and bring them back to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.
Jeremiah 3:13Just admit you did wrong, that you rebelled against the Lord your God. You spread yourself around, committing adultery by worshiping foreign gods under every green tree, refusing to do what I told you, declares the Lord.
Lamentations 1:18“The Lord has done what's right, because I rebelled against his instructions. Listen, everyone everywhere; look at what I'm suffering. My young women and young men have been taken off into captivity.
Ezekiel 24:13Because of your immorality you had made yourself unclean and I tried to clean you, but you refused to let me clean away your filth. So now you won't be pure again until I've finished being angry with you.
Daniel 9:8Public shame is ours Lord, and on our kings and princes and forefathers, because we have sinned against you.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:38-42
The Duties of the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord . 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the foregoing verses , and may taste the… Read the whole commentary →