SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:40
¶ Y confesarán su iniquidad, y la iniquidad de sus padres, por su prevaricación con que prevaricaron contra mí; y también porque anduvieron conmigo en oposición,
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 40. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers , etc.] The Targum of Jonathan adds, “in the time of their distress;” which might serve to bring their sins to remembrance, and them to a confession of them, not only of their own sins, but of their fathers’ also; acknowledging thereby that they had been guilty of sinning against God for a long course of years past; and that God had been long suffering towards them, and bore much with them before he brought his judgments on them, which were just, and what they righteously deserved; and such a confession Daniel made, ( Daniel 9:4-8); and the words may as well be rendered absolute as conditional, or better, and as a prediction of what would be done by them when in captivity and distress, “and they shall confess their iniquity” f921 ; with shame and sorrow, with repentance for it, and abhorrence of it; or otherwise, if the confession was only verbal and hypocritical, it would not be acceptable: with their trespass which they trespassed against me ; along with their own iniquities, and those of their fathers, they should confess, their trespass against the Lord would be acknowledged by them; which seems to design some particular and grievous sin committed by them, by which perhaps is meant their idolatry, a capital sin, directly against God, and what those people were prone unto: and that also they have walked contrary unto me ; to his mind and will, to his laws, commands, statutes, and ordinances, disregarding him and them, as if enemies to him; or “by chance”; (see Gill on “ Leviticus 26:21”).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 40-46 - Among the Israelites, persons were not always prosperous or afflicte according to their obedience or disobedience. But national prosperit was the effect of national obedience, and national judgments wer brought on by national wickedness. Israel was under a peculia covenant. National wickedness will end in the ruin of any people especially where the word of God and the light of the gospel ar enjoyed. Sooner or later, sin will be the ruin, as well as the reproach, of every people. Oh that, being humbled for our sins, we might avert the rising storm before it bursts upon us! God grant tha we may, in this our day, consider the things which belong to ou eternal peace __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
והתודו 3034 את 853 עונם 5771 ואת 853 עון 5771 אבתם 1 במעלם 4604 אשׁר 834 מעלו 4604 בי ואף 637 אשׁר 834 הלכו 1980 עמי 5973 בקרי׃ 7147
