We have trespassed: Shechaniah here speaks in the name of the people, not acknowledging himself culpable; for he is not in the following list., Compare, Jam 2:9; Exo 34:12; Neh 13:27
yet now there is hope: Exo 34:6-7; Isa 55:6-7; Jer 3:12-13; 1Jo 1:7-9