Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are not: 1 We have borne their iniquities. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
In Context
6Egypt gave the hand to us, 1 Assyria to their own satisfaction. 1
8Servants have ruled over us: 1 There is none to ransom us out of their hand. 1
Cross References
Genesis 42:36And their father Jacob said to them, Ye have bereaved me. Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and will ye take Benjamin? all these things have come upon me.
Numbers 14:18The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
Job 7:21Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, 1 And purged my sin? 1 But now I shall depart to the earth; 1 And in the morning, I am no more.
Jeremiah 16:11Then thou shalt say to them, Because your fathers forsook me, saith the Lord, and went after strange gods and served them, and worshiped them, and forsook me, and kept not my law
Jeremiah 31:15Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.
Ezekiel 16:58As for thine ungodliness and thine iniquities, thou hast borne them, saith the Lord.
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 →