Lamentations 3:42

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

"We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned." - Lamentations 3:42
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What does Lamentations 3:42 mean?

Lamentations 3:42 in the King James Version says, "We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned." This verse comes from the book of Lamentations, which is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem. The book is traditionally attributed to…

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The Weight of Rebellion: A Call to Repentance

The Book of Lamentations stands as a poignant testimony to the sorrow and suffering that marked the Israelites’ experience after the fall of Jerusalem. In Lamentations 3:42, we read, “We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.” This verse captures the heart…

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A Prayer for Divine Forgiveness and Restoration

O Sovereign Lord, In the quietness of this moment, we turn our hearts towards You, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, the One who sees all and knows all. We come before Your throne of grace, acknowledging the weight of our transgressions and the burden of our rebellion…

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Lamentations 3:36 - "To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not."
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Lamentations 3:27 - "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."
Lamentations 3:38 - "Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?"
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Lamentations 3:19 - "Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."
Lamentations 3:34 - "To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,"
Lamentations 3:50 - "Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."
Lamentations 3:37 - "¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
Lamentations 3:29 - "He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope."
Lamentations 3:2 - "He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."
Lamentations 3:21 - "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."
Lamentations 3:45 - "Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people."
Lamentations 3:49 - "Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,"
Lamentations 3:20 - "My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me."
Lamentations 3:35 - "To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,"
Lamentations 3:46 - "All our enemies have opened their mouths against us."
Lamentations 3:63 - "Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick."
Lamentations 3:33 - "For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men."
Lamentations 3:65 - "Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them."
Lamentations 3:66 - "Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD."
Lamentations 3:6 - "He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old."
Lamentations 3:22 - "¶ It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."