Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned; they are no more, And we bear their iniquities.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
In Context
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
8Servants rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.
Cross References
Job 7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, And take away mine iniquity? ((7:22)) For soon shall I sleep in the dust; And, though thou seek me diligently, I shall not be.
Jeremiah 16:11Then shalt thou say to them: Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, And have walked after strange gods, And have served them and worshipped them, And have forsaken me, and not kept my law.
Jeremiah 31:15Thus saith Jehovah: A voice hath been heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel, weeping for her children, Refuseth to be comforted, because they are no more.
Ezekiel 16:58Thy wickedness and thine abominations must thou now bear, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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 →