Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and they are no more, 1 and we bear their iniquities. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
In Context
6We have given ourselves to Egypt and to Assyria 1 to get enough food. 1
8Slaves rule over us, 1 and there is no one to deliver us from their hand. 1
Cross References
Genesis 42:36Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children. Joseph is no longer alive, Simeon is gone, and you will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”
Numbers 14:18'Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness. He forgives iniquity and transgression. He will by no means clear the guilty when he brings the punishment of the ancestors' sin on their descendants, to the third and fourth generation.'
Job 7:21Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? 1 For now will I lie down in the dust; 1 you will seek me carefully, but I will not exist.”
Jeremiah 16:11So say to them, 'Because your ancestors abandoned me—this is Yahweh's declaration—and they went after other gods and worshiped and bowed down to them. They abandoned me and have not kept my law.
Jeremiah 31:15Yahweh says this: “A voice is heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter weeping. 1 It is Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted over them, for they live no longer.” 1
Ezekiel 16:58You will show your shame and your disgusting actions!—this is Yahweh's declaration!
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 →