You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right;
they remember you in your ways.
But we have sinned, and you were angry.
How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 64:5 Lit angry; in them continually and we will be saved; Hb obscure

You come to the help of those who gladly do right,(A)
    who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
    you were angry.(B)
    How then can we be saved?

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Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

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God’s People Unrepentant

14 Why are we just sitting here?
Gather together; let’s enter the fortified cities
and perish there,[a]
for the Lord our God has destroyed[b] us.
He has given us poisoned water to drink,(A)
because we have sinned against the Lord.(B)

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  1. 8:14 Or there be silenced
  2. 8:14 Or silenced

14 Why are we sitting here?
    Gather together!
Let us flee to the fortified cities(A)
    and perish there!
For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and given us poisoned water(B) to drink,
    because we have sinned(C) against him.

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14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

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Though our iniquities testify against us,
Lord, act for your name’s sake.
Indeed, our rebellions(A) are many;
we have sinned against you.(B)

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Although our sins testify(A) against us,
    do something, Lord, for the sake of your name.(B)
For we have often rebelled;(C)
    we have sinned(D) against you.

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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 against thee.

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20 We acknowledge our wickedness, Lord,
the iniquity of our ancestors;(A)
indeed, we have sinned against you.

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20 We acknowledge(A) our wickedness, Lord,
    and the guilt of our ancestors;(B)
    we have indeed sinned(C) against you.

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20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

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42 “We have sinned and rebelled;
you have not forgiven.(A)

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42 “We have sinned and rebelled(A)
    and you have not forgiven.(B)

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42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

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16 The crown has fallen from our head.(A)
Woe to us, for we have sinned.(B)

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16 The crown(A) has fallen from our head.(B)
    Woe to us, for we have sinned!(C)

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

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we have sinned,(A) done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled,(B) and turned away from your commands and ordinances.(C)

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we have sinned(A) and done wrong.(B) We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away(C) from your commands and laws.(D)

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We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

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