Lamentations 5:7
Avoteinu have sinned, and are no more; 1 and we have borne their iniquities. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
In Context
6We have submitted to the Mitzrayim, 1 and to the Assyrians, to get enough lechem. 1
8Avadim have ruled over us; 1 there is none that doth deliver us out of their yad. 1
Cross References
Genesis 42:36And Ya'akov Avihem said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children; Yosef is not, and Shim'on is not, and ye will take Binyamin away; all these things are against me.
Numbers 14:18Hashem is slow of anger, and of rav chesed, forgiving avon and peysha, and by no means exonerating the guilty, visiting the avon of the avot upon the banim unto the third and fourth generation.
Job 7:21And why dost Thou not pardon my peysha (transgression), 1 and take away my avon (iniquity)? 1 For now shall I sleep in the aphar; 1 and Thou shalt search for me, but I shall be no more.
Jeremiah 16:11Then shalt thou say unto them, Because avoteichem have forsaken Me, saith Hashem, and have walked after acharei elohim, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not been shomer over My torah;
Jeremiah 31:15Thus saith Hashem: 1 Refrain thy voice from weeping, 1 and thine eyes from tears; 1 for sachar (reward) there will be for thy labor, saith Hashem; 1 and they shall return from the eretz oyev (land of the enemy). 1
Ezekiel 16:58Thou hast borne [the penalty of] thy zimmah (lewdness) and thine to'avot, saith Hashem.
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 →