Lamentations 3:42
We have sinned, we have transgressed; and you have not pardoned.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
In Context
41Let us lift up our hearts with our hand to the lofty One in heaven.
43SAMECH. You have visited us in wrath, and driven us away: you have slain, you have not pitied.
Cross References
2 Kings 24:4Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not + 24:4 Gr. be propitiated. pardon it.
Nehemiah 9:26But they turned, and revolted from you, and cast your law behind their backs; and they killed your prophets, who testified against them to turn them back to you, and they wrought great provocations.
Jeremiah 3:13Nevertheless, know your iniquity, that you have sinned against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every shady tree, but you did not listen to my voice, says the Lord.
Lamentations 1:18TSADE. The Lord is righteous; for I have provoked his mouth: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my grief: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Ezekiel 24:13Her scum shall become shameful, because you did defile yourself: and what if you shall be purged no more until I have accomplished my wrath?
Daniel 9:8In you, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us belongs confusion of faced, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned.
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 →