Yet if they bethink themselves. — Compare-margin. If they take it to heart, i.e., repent (Deut. iv- 39).
We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly. — Comp. the same three verbs in Psalms 106:6; Daniel 9:5 (Kings puts the conjunction before the second verb). There is a climax, “we have slipped (or missed the mark), we have done crookedly, we have been godless.”