Psalms 106:6

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We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:47 : 47 When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting,‘We have sinned and gone astray; we have done evil.’
  • Ezra 9:6-7 : 6 I prayed,“O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens. 7 From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment– right up to the present time.
  • Lev 26:40 : 40 However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.
  • Neh 9:16 : 16 “But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.
  • Neh 9:32-34 : 32 “So now, our God– the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity– do not regard as inconsequential all the hardship that has befallen us– our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people– from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day! 33 You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong! 34 Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law. They have not paid attention to your commandments or your testimonies by which you have solemnly admonished them.
  • Jer 3:25 : 25 Let us acknowledge our shame. Let us bear the disgrace that we deserve. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our ancestors. From earliest times to this very day we have not obeyed the LORD our God.’
  • Dan 9:5-8 : 5 we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards. 6 We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, and to all the inhabitants of the land as well. 7 “You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day– the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you. 8 O LORD, we have been humiliated– our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors– because we have sinned against you.
  • Matt 23:32 : 32 Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did! 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!
  • Num 32:14 : 14 Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the LORD against the Israelites.
  • Neh 1:7 : 7 We have behaved corruptly against you, not obeying the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 5:6-8
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    6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

    7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.

    8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

  • Dan 9:5-6
    2 verses
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    5we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.

    6We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, and to all the inhabitants of the land as well.

  • Jer 14:20
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    20LORD, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.

  • Dan 9:13-15
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    80%

    13Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.

    14The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.

    15“Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day– we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

  • Ps 106:7
    78%

    7Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.

  • Jer 3:24-25
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    78%

    24From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal, has taken away all that our ancestors worked for. It has taken away our flocks and our herds, and even our sons and daughters.

    25Let us acknowledge our shame. Let us bear the disgrace that we deserve. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our ancestors. From earliest times to this very day we have not obeyed the LORD our God.’

  • Lam 3:42-43
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    77%

    42“We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.”

    43ס(Samek) You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.

  • Isa 59:12-13
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    77%

    12For you are aware of our many rebellious deeds, and our sins testify against us; indeed, we are aware of our rebellious deeds; we know our sins all too well.

    13We have rebelled and tried to deceive the LORD; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.

  • Neh 1:7
    77%

    7We have behaved corruptly against you, not obeying the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses.

  • Dan 9:8-9
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    76%

    8O LORD, we have been humiliated– our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors– because we have sinned against you.

    9Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    76%

    6For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the LORD our God and abandoned him! They turned away from the LORD’s dwelling place and rejected him.

  • Ezra 9:7
    74%

    7From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment– right up to the present time.

  • Neh 9:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

    33You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!

    34Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law. They have not paid attention to your commandments or your testimonies by which you have solemnly admonished them.

  • Jer 14:7
    73%

    7Then I said,“O LORD, intervene for the honor of your name even though our sins speak out against us. Indeed, we have turned away from you many times. We have sinned against you.

  • 2 Chr 6:37
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    37When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting,‘We have sinned and gone astray, we have done evil!’

  • Judg 10:15
    73%

    15But the Israelites said to the LORD,“We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”

  • Lam 5:16
    72%

    16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

  • Dan 9:11
    72%

    11“All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.

  • Neh 9:16
    72%

    16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

  • 1 Kgs 8:47
    72%

    47When your people come to their senses in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting,‘We have sinned and gone astray; we have done evil.’

  • Ps 44:17
    72%

    17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.

  • Isa 63:17
    71%

    17Why, LORD, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!

  • Lev 26:40
    71%

    40However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me

  • Ps 79:8
    71%

    8Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!

  • Judg 10:10
    71%

    10The Israelites cried out for help to the LORD:“We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals.”

  • Jer 50:7
    71%

    7All who encountered them devoured them. Their enemies who did this said,‘We are not liable for punishment! For those people have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture. They have sinned against the LORD in whom their ancestors trusted.’

  • Num 12:11
    71%

    11The Intercession of Moses So Aaron said to Moses,“O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!

  • Deut 26:6
    71%

    6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

  • Ezra 9:13
    71%

    13“Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.

  • Num 20:15
    71%

    15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

  • 1 John 1:10
    70%

    10If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

  • Isa 64:9
    70%

    9LORD, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!

  • Isa 64:5
    70%

    5You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?

  • Ps 78:3
    70%

    3What we have heard and learned– that which our ancestors have told us–

  • Isa 43:27
    70%

    27The father of your nation sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me.

  • Isa 53:6
    70%

    6All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the LORD caused the sin of all of us to attack him.

  • Isa 1:4
    70%

    4Beware sinful nation, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the LORD, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.