We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers, the guilt which was found in the children also, for we have sinned against Thee. It is a confession in the name of those who were still Israelites in truth, since He, in the event of their repenting, had promised them forgiveness.
Verse Jeremiah 14:20. _WE ACKNOWLEDGE, O LORD, OUR WICKEDNESS_] This the prophet did in behalf of the people; but, alas! they did not join him....
A second (compare Jeremiah 14:7) earnest intercession, acknowledging the wickedness of the nation, but appealing to the covenant and to God’s Almighty power. LOTHED - More exactly, “hath thrown away...
II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING CHAPTER 14 The Great Drought...
JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
WE ACKNOWLEDGE. These are the prophet's words. WICKEDNESS. lawlessness. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. Not the same word as in Jeremiah 14:16. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avon._ App-44....
In these _vv_. three pleas are urged on behalf of the people: (i) their contrition, (ii) God's honour, (iii) their hopelessness of any other aid....
DISCOURSE: 1053 HOW TO PLEAD WITH GOD Jeremiah 14:20. _We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake;...
D. Jeremiah's Third Petition Rejected Jeremiah 14:19-22 TRANSLATION (19) Will You completely reject Judah? Will Your soul loath Zion? Why have You smitten us when there is not healing for us? We hope...
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. WE ACKNOWLEDGE, O LORD, OUR WICKEDNESS - ()....
1-6. Description of the drought....
AND THE INIQUITY. — The insertion of the conjunction weakens the force of the original. The wickedness which Israel confesses is the iniquity of its fathers, inherited, accepted, on the way to be perp...
יָדַ֧עְנוּ יְהוָ֛ה רִשְׁעֵ֖נוּ עֲוֹ֣ן אֲבֹותֵ֑ינוּ כִּ֥י...
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections: prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
We (o) acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. (o) He teaches the Church a form of prayer to humble themselves to God by true repentan...
Faithful ministers cannot but feel grief at the conduct of false teachers, who prophecy smooth things, and prophecy deceit. Jeremiah had to encounter with many in his days, of this description and no...
The Prophet here prescribes no doubt to the Jews the way of appeasing God. He before uttered a prayer, partly in order to reprove the people for their wicked obstinacy, and partly to shew to the godly...
Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared. But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
WE ACKNOWLEDGE, O LORD, OUR WICKEDNESS, AND THE INIQUITY OF OUR FATHERS,.... This is said by the prophet, in the name of the few faithful that were among this people, who were sensible of their own si...
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, [and] the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. Ver. 20. _We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness._] We, the better sort of us, do so. And s...
_Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?_ The prophet again returns to God, and expostulates with him, humbly imploring mercy for his people, which shows that he did not understand God's words to him, (Jere...
17-22 Jeremiah acknowledged his own sins, and those of the people, but pleaded with the Lord to remember his covenant. In their distress none of the idols of the Gentiles could help them, nor could t...
That is, both we and our fathers have sinned against thee, and have given thee a right to punish and destroy its; we desire not to cover or cloak our sin, we own and acknowledge it....
Jeremiah 14:20 acknowledge H3045 (H8804) LORD H3068 wickedness H7562 iniquity H5771 fathers H1 sinned H2398 (H8804
In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
CONTENTS: Message on the drought. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied, as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
_We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness._ FRANK ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF GUILT Next to the merit of not sinning is confessing sin. A learned man has said, “The three hardest words in the English language ar...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 14:20 Jeremiah expresses his faith on behalf of Judah, but the people do not share his convictions, as God knows. REMEMBER. See v. Je
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and synchr...
EXPOSITION This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth (Jeremiah 14:1). For a drought filled the land. Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground; and the cry of...
1 John 1:7; 2 Samuel 12:13; 2 Samuel 24:10; Daniel 9:5; Ezra 9:6;...