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Jeremiah 14:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned "

Jeremiah 14:20

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18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know

19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned

21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant

22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made

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Related Verses

Lamentations 5:7

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"Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities."

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Jeremiah 14:7

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"O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned"

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Jeremiah 3:25

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"We 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."

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Psalms 32:5

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"I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah."

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Luke 15:18-21

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"I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,"

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1 John 1:7-9

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"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."

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From This Chapter

Jeremiah 14:1

"The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth."

Jeremiah 14:2

"Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up."

Jeremiah 14:3

"And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads."

Jeremiah 14:4

"Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads."

Jeremiah 14:5

"Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass."

Jeremiah 14:6

"And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass."
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