לוקם 15:21

Hebrew Modern Translation

ויאמר אליו הבן אבי חטאתי לשמים ולפניך ואני נקלתי מהקרא עוד בנך׃

Parallel Translations

Delitzsche Hebrew NT (1877)
וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו הַבֵּן אָבִי חָטָאתִי גַּם לְשָׁמַיִם גַּם לְפָנֶיךָ וַאֲנִי נְקַלּתִי מֵהִקָּרֵא עוֹד בְּנֶךָ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Father: Luke 15:18, Luke 15:19, Jeremiah 3:13, Ezekiel 16:63, Romans 2:4

against: Psalms 51:4, Psalms 143:2, 1 Corinthians 8:12

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 12:13 - I have sinned Ezra 9:6 - grown up Psalms 32:5 - I said Psalms 51:17 - thou Psalms 103:13 - Like Daniel 4:26 - the heavens Daniel 9:15 - we have sinned Hosea 14:2 - receive Zechariah 1:3 - and Matthew 6:9 - Our Matthew 8:8 - I am

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the son said unto him, father,.... Or "my father", as the Syriac version reads; and the Persic version adds, "pardon me": sin lay heavy on him, and he wanted a view and application of pardoning grace, though he seems to be prevented making this request by the kiss he received from his father:

I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight; this is what he determined to say, and was allowed to say, having a deep sense of his sin and vileness, and which was increased by the love and kindness his father had shown him. The phrase is Jewish;

:- to which may be added, what is elsewhere said c,

"what is the sense of that passage, Psalms 12:4 "who have said, with our tongues we will prevail?" c. it designs all the transgressions a man sins against earth and if

חוטאין בשמים, "they sin against heaven", and earth; what is the sense of that in Psalms 73:9?''

and am no more worthy to be called thy son: so much he was suffered to say, which fully expresses his sense of his vileness and unworthiness: but he was not allowed to say, "make me as one of thy hired servants"; because this could not be granted; for a son is always a son, and cannot become a servant; see Galatians 4:6.

c T. Hieros Peah, fol. 16. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 15:21. Make me as one of thy hired servants, is added here by several MSS. and versions; but it is evident this has been added, merely to make his conduct agree with his resolution, Luke 15:19. But by this a very great beauty is lost: for the design of the inspired penman is to show, not merely the depth of the profligate son's repentance, and the sincerity of his conversion, but to show the great affection of the father, and his readiness to forgive his disobedient son. His tenderness of heart cannot wait till the son has made his confession; his bowels yearn over him, and he cuts short his tale of contrition and self-reproach, by giving him the most plenary assurances of his pardoning love.