(A)We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity,
We have done wickedly.

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47 (A)yet when they [a]come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, (B)saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness’;

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  1. 1 Kings 8:47 Lit. bring back to their heart

And (A)may not be like their fathers,
(B)A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation (C)that did not [a]set its heart aright,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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  1. Psalm 78:8 Lit. prepare its heart

16 “But(A) they and our fathers acted [a]proudly,
(B)Hardened[b] their necks,
And did not heed Your commandments.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:16 presumptuously
  2. Nehemiah 9:16 Stiffened their necks, became stubborn

And I said: “O my God, I am too (A)ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for (B)our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has (C)grown up to the heavens. Since the days of our fathers to this day (D)we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities (E)we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the (F)sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to (G)humiliation,[a] as it is this day.

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  1. Ezra 9:7 Lit. shame of faces

40 But (A)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

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Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

51 You (A)stiff-necked[a] and (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 (C)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of (D)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

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  1. Acts 7:51 stubborn

32 (A)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt.

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(A)we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. (B)Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. O Lord, (C)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

“O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

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25 We lie down in our shame,
And our [a]reproach covers us.
(A)For we have sinned against the Lord our God,
We and our fathers,
From our youth even to this day,
And (B)have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

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  1. Jeremiah 3:25 disgrace

32 “Now therefore, our God,
The great, the (A)mighty, and awesome God,
Who keeps covenant and mercy:
Do not let all the [a]trouble seem small before You
That has come upon us,
Our kings and our princes,
Our priests and our prophets,
Our fathers and on all Your people,
(B)From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
33 However (C)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But (D)we have done wickedly.
34 Neither our kings nor our princes,
Our priests nor our fathers,
Have kept Your law,
Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,
With which You testified against them.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:32 hardship

(A)We have acted very corruptly against You, and have (B)not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.

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14 And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the (A)fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.

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