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Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says Yahweh.
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The Simple Path to Pardon
Commentators unanimously highlight that God's requirement for restoration is simple yet profound: 'Only acknowledge your iniquity.' This isn't a complex set of rituals, but a sincere, honest confession of sin. Scholars like Charles Ellicott call it the 'one sufficient, indispensable condition of pardon,' emphasizing that God asks for nothing less than a truthful admission of wrongdoing before He extends His mercy.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Acknowledge – literally, “know your iniquity;” know that your doings are iniquitous.
Scattered your ways – Wandered in search o…
19th Century
Anglican
Only acknowledge ... —This was the one sufficient, indispensable condition of pardon—the confession that kept nothing bac…
Baptist
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall…
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16th Century
Protestant
God lays down here a condition to prevent hypocrites, relying on His goodness, from becoming more and more hardened, while still thinking that He i…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Only acknowledge your iniquity Or, "know" F5 it; unless a man knows his sin, and is convicted of it, he w…
See God's readiness to pardon sin, and the blessings reserved for gospel times. These words were proclaimed toward the north: to Israel, the ten tr…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he calls them back from the punishment of captivity.
