Lamentations 3 · Verse 42

Lamentations 3:42

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Lamentations 3:42, King James Version

Lamentations 3:42 in other translations

BSB“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
WEB“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
ASVWe have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
YLTWe--we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou--Thou hast not forgiven.
DARBYWe have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
BBEWe have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
WebsterWe have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

What does Lamentations 3:42 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:40-42

40-42. us--Jeremiah and his fellow countrymen in their calamity. search--as opposed to the torpor wherewith men rest only on their outward sufferings, without attending to the cause of them (Psa 139:23, 24).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54
The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Lamentations 3:42 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

נַ֤חְנוּNach.nuweH5168
פָשַׁ֙עְנוּ֙fa.Sha'.nuwe have transgressedH6586
וּמָרִ֔ינוּu.ma.Ri.nuand we have rebelledH4784
אַתָּ֖ה'a.TahyouH859
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
סָלָֽחְתָּ\׃\ \סsa.La.che.tayou have forgivenH5545

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 3:42

  • Nehemiah 9:26

    Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

  • Jeremiah 5:7-9

    How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Luke 15:18-19

    I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

  • Zechariah 1:5

    Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

  • 2 Kings 24:4

    And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord would not pardon.

  • Lamentations 1:18

    The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

  • Ezekiel 24:13

    In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

  • Lamentations 5:16

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

  • Job 33:27-28

    He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

  • Daniel 9:5-14

    We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. …

  • Jeremiah 3:13

    Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.

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transgressed.
1:18; 5:16; Ne 9:26; Job 33:27,28; Jer 3:13; Da 9:5-14; Lu 15:18,19
thou.
2Ki 24:4; Jer 5:7,8; Eze 24:13; Zec 1:5

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Context

  • Lamentations 3:41

    Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

  • Lamentations 3:42

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

  • Lamentations 3:43

    Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

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Lamentations 3:42 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Nosotros nos hemos rebelado, y fuimos desleales; tú no perdonaste.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Nous avons désobéi et nous avons été rebelles; tu n’as pas pardonné.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wir, wir sind abgefallen und sind widerspenstig gewesen; du hast nicht vergeben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Nos inique egimus, et ad iracundiam provocavimus; idcirco tu inexorabilis es.