Daniel 9:5

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

Nehemiah 9:18-19

9:18 even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious ¹  blasphemies.

9:19 “Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the desert. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, ²  nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.

Nehemiah 9:26-28

9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. ³  They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies. 9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from ⁴  their adversaries.

9:28 “Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to ⁵  their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again.

Psalms 106:43-45

106:43 Many times he delivered ⁶  them,

but they had a rebellious attitude, ⁷ 

and degraded themselves ⁸  by their sin.

106:44 Yet he took notice of their distress,

when he heard their cry for help.

106:45 He remembered his covenant with them,

and relented ⁹  because of his great loyal love.

Jeremiah 14:7

14:7 Then I said, ¹⁰ 

“O Lord, intervene for the honor of your name ¹¹ 

even though our sins speak out against us. ¹² 

Indeed, ¹³  we have turned away from you many times.

We have sinned against you.

Ezekiel 20:8-9

20:8 But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, ¹⁴  nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out ¹⁵  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 20:9 I acted for the sake of my reputation, ¹⁶  so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, ¹⁷  before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁸ 

Ezekiel 20:13

20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out ¹⁹  my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them. ²⁰ 

[9:18]  ¹ tn Heb “great.”

[9:19]  ² tn Heb “did not turn from them by day to guide them in the path.”

[9:26]  ³ tn Heb “they cast your law behind their backs.”

[9:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the hand of” (so NASB, NIV); NAB “from the power of.”

[9:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the hand of” (so KJV, ASV); NAB “to the power of.”

[106:43]  ⁶ tn The prefixed verbal form is either preterite or imperfect, in which case it is customary, describing repeated action in past time (“he would deliver”).

[106:43]  ⁷ tn Heb “but they rebelled in their counsel.” The prefixed verbal form is either preterite or imperfect, in which case it is customary, describing repeated action in past time (“they would have a rebellious attitude”).

[106:43]  ⁸ tn Heb “they sank down.” The Hebrew verb מָכַךְ (makhakh, “to lower; to sink”) occurs only here in the Qal.

[106:45]  ⁹ tn The Niphal of נָחַם (nakham) refers here to God relenting from a punishment already underway.

[14:7]  ¹⁰ tn The words “Then I said” are not in the text. However, it cannot be a continuation of the Lord’s speech and the people have consistently refused to acknowledge their sin. The fact that the prayer here and in vv. 19-22 are followed by an address from God to Jeremiah regarding prayer (cf. 4:11 and the interchanges there between God and Jeremiah and 15:1) also argues that the speaker is Jeremiah. He is again identifying with his people (cf. 8:18-9:2). Here he takes up the petition part of the lament which often contains elements of confession of sin and statements of trust. In 14:1-6 God portrays to Jeremiah the people’s lamentable plight instead of their describing it to him. Here Jeremiah prays what they should pray. The people are strangely silent throughout.

[14:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Act for the sake of your name.” The usage of “act” in this absolute, unqualified sense cf. BDB 794 s.v. עָוֹשָׂה Qal.I.r and compare the usage, e.g., in 1 Kgs 8:32 and 39. For the nuance of “for the sake of your name” compare the usage in Isa 48:9 and Ezek 20:9, 14.

[14:7]  ¹² tn Or “bear witness against us,” or “can be used as evidence against us,” to keep the legal metaphor. Heb “testify against.”

[14:7]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew particle כִּי (ki) can scarcely be causal here; it is either intensive (BDB 472 s.v. כִּי 1.e) or concessive (BDB 473 s.v. כִּי 2.c). The parallel usage in Gen 18:20 argues for the intensive force as does the fact that the concessive has already been expressed by אִם (’im).

[20:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of their eyes did not throw away.”

[20:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

[20:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for the sake of my name.”

[20:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were.”

[20:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to whom I made myself known before their eyes to bring them out from the land of Egypt.” The translation understands the infinitive construct (“to bring them out”) as indicating manner. God’s deliverance of his people from Egypt was an act of self-revelation in that it displayed his power and his commitment to his promises.

[20:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

[20:13]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to bring them to an end.”