For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
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Gill's Exposition
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,.... Not only an increase of immorality among the people in common, but among professors of religion; and as their transgressions are committed…
Barnes' Notes
Our sins testify against us - Hebrew, ‘Answer against us.’ The idea is, that their past lives had been so depraved that they became witnesses against them (compare the notes at Isa 3:9). We know them…
The scope of this paragraph is the same with that of the last, to show that sin is the great mischief-maker; as it is that which keeps good things from us, so it is that which brings evil things upon…
Cambridge Bible
our sins testify against us So Jer 14:7.
our transgressionsare with us present to our conscience, Job 12:3; Job 14:5 &c.; comp. also Psa 51:3 ("my transgressions I know, and my sin is before me…
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