Psalms 106:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:47 : 47 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;
  • Ezra 9:6-7 : 6 I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven. 7 From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.
  • Lev 26:40 : 40 And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.
  • Neh 9:16 : 16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,
  • Neh 9:32-34 : 32 And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day. 33 But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil: 34 And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.
  • Jer 3:25 : 25 Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.
  • Dan 9:5-8 : 5 We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws: 6 We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land. 7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you. 8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.
  • Matt 23:32 : 32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;
  • Num 32:14 : 14 And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.
  • Neh 1:7 : 7 We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 5:6-8
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    6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

    7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

    8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

  • Dan 9:5-6
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    5 We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:

    6 We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.

  • Jer 14:20
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    20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

  • Dan 9:13-15
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    13 As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.

    14 So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

    15 And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil.

  • Ps 106:7
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    7 Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

  • Jer 3:24-25
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    24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

    25 Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

  • Lam 3:42-43
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    77%

    42 We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

    43 Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

  • Isa 59:12-13
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    77%

    12 For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:

    13 We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

  • Neh 1:7
    77%

    7 We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.

  • Dan 9:8-9
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    8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.

    9 With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    76%

    6 For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

  • Ezra 9:7
    74%

    7 From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

  • Neh 9:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

    33 But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

    34 And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

  • Jer 14:7
    73%

    7 Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

  • 2 Chr 6:37
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    37 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, turning again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

  • Judg 10:15
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    15 And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We are sinners; do to us whatever seems good to you: only give us salvation this day.

  • Lam 5:16
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    16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

  • Dan 9:11
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    11 And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.

  • Neh 9:16
    72%

    16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

  • 1 Kgs 8:47
    72%

    47 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

  • Ps 44:17
    72%

    17 All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • Isa 63:17
    71%

    17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

  • Lev 26:40
    71%

    40 And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;

  • Ps 79:8
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    8 Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

  • Judg 10:10
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    10 Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.

  • Jer 50:7
    71%

    7 They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

  • Num 12:11
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    11 Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.

  • Deut 26:6
    71%

    6 And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

  • Ezra 9:13
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    13 And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

  • Num 20:15
    71%

    15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

  • Isa 64:9
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    9 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

  • Isa 64:5
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    5 For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

  • Ps 78:3
    70%

    3 Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

  • Isa 43:27
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    27 Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

  • Isa 53:6
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    6 We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

  • Isa 1:4
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    4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.