Lamentations 3:42
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 3 connects to 10 cross-references. The central and longest lament shifts to first-person male singular. The man has seen affliction under the rod of God's wrath — led into darkness with no light, his flesh wasted, his way blocked with hewn stone. The famous pivot: …
Other Translations
We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
We--we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou--Thou hast not forgiven.
We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
Cross References
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would …
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited …
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a …
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: …
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the …
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged …
Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous …
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts …
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?