Psalms 106 · Verse 6

Psalms 106:6

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Psalms 106:6, King James Version

Psalms 106:6 in other translations

BSBWe have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
WEBWe have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
ASVWe have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
YLTWe have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.
DARBYWe have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
BBEWe are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.
WebsterWe have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

What does Psalms 106:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. Compare 1Ki 8:47; Da 9:5, where the same three verbs occur in the same order and connection, the original of the two later passages being the first one, the prayer of Solomon in dedicating the temple. sinned ... fathers--like them, and so partaking of their guilt. The terms denote a rising gradation of sinning (compare Psa 1:1). with our fathers--we and they together forming one mass of corruption.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 We have sinned - Here the confession begins; what preceded was only the introduction to what follows: Our forefathers sinned, and suffered; we, like them, have sinned, and do suffer.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 106:6-12
Here begins a confession of sin; for we must acknowledge that the Lord has done right, and we have done wickedly. We are encouraged to hope that though justly corrected, yet we shall not be utterly forsaken. God's afflicted people own themselves guilty before him. God is distrusted because his favours are not remembered. If he did not save us for his own name's sake, and to the praise of his power and grace, we should all perish.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Psalms 106:6 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.

חָטָ֥אנוּcha.Ta.nuwe have sinnedH2398
עִם\־'im-withH5973
אֲבוֹתֵ֗ינוּ'a.vo.Tei.nuancestors ourH1
הֶעֱוִ֥ינוּhe.'e.Vi.nuwe have done wrongH5753
הִרְשָֽׁעְנוּ\׃hir.Sha.'e.nuwe have acted wickedlyH7561

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Cross references for Psalms 106:6

  • Nehemiah 9:16

    But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

  • Psalms 78:8

    And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

  • Ezra 9:6-7

    And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • 1 Kings 8:47

    Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

  • Nehemiah 9:32-34

    Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

  • Leviticus 26:40

    If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

  • Daniel 9:5-8

    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.

  • Acts 7:51-52

    Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

  • Numbers 32:14

    And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.

  • Jeremiah 3:25

    We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.

  • Nehemiah 1:7

    We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

  • Matthew 23:32

    Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
78:8; Le 26:40; Nu 32:14; 1Ki 8:47; Ezr 9:6,7; Ne 9:16,32-34
Da 9:5-8; Mt 23:32; Ac 7:51,52

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Context

  • Psalms 106:5

    That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

  • Psalms 106:6

    We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

  • Psalms 106:7

    Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

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Psalms 106:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Pecamos con nuestros padres, hicimos iniquidad, hicimos impiedad.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Nous avons péché avec nos pères; nous avons commis l’iniquité, nous avons agi méchamment.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wir haben gesündigt samt unseren Vätern, haben unrecht getan, haben gesetzlos gehandelt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et clamaverunt ad Dominum cum tribularentur, et de necessitatibus eorum eripuit eos;