Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers (which nowe are gone) haue sinned, and we must beare their wickednesse.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
In Context
8Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes.
Cross References
Genesis 42:36And Iacob theyr father sayde vnto them: Me haue ye robbed of my children, Ioseph is away, and Simeon is away, & ye will take Beniamin away: all these thinges are agaynst me.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →