Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers, sinned, and are not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
In Context
6To Egypt, have we stretched out our hand, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
8Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.
Cross References
Genesis 42:36And Jacob their father said unto them, Me, have ye bereaved,—Joseph, is not, and, Simeon, is not, and Benjamin, ye would take! Against me, have happened all these things.
Numbers 14:18Yahweh—slow to anger and great in lovingkindness, Forgiving iniquity and transgression: Though he will not leave, wholly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons, Upon a third generation, and upon a fourth.
Job 7:21And why wilt thou not remove my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For, now, in the dust, should I lie down, and thou shouldst seek me diligently, and I should not be.
Jeremiah 16:11Then shalt thou say unto them,—For that your fathers forsook, me, Declareth Yahweh, And walked after other gods, and served them, and bowed down to them,—Whereas me, they forsook And my law, kept they not;
Jeremiah 31:15Thus, saith Yahweh—A voice, in Ramah, is heard, Wailing, bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children,—She refuseth to be comforted for her children, For they are not!
Ezekiel 16:58As for thy crime and thine abominations, thou thyself, dost bear them,— Declareth Yahweh.
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 →