Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned, and be not, and we bare the wickednesses of them. (Our forefathers sinned, and be not, and we carry their wickednesses.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

In Context

6We gave (the) hand to Egypt, and to Assyrians, that we should be [ful] filled with bread. (We put forth our hands to Egypt, and to Assyria, for food to eat.)

8Servants were lords of us, and none was, that again-bought from the hand of them. (Servants be our lords, and there is no one who can rescue us from their hands.)

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Cross References

Genesis 42:36their father Jacob said, Ye have made me to be without children; Joseph is not alive, Simeon is holden in bonds, (and) ye shall take away from me Benjamin; all these evils have fallen in (on) me. (and their father Jacob said, Ye have made me to be without my children; Joseph is not alive, Simeon is held in prison, and now ye shall take Benjamin away from me; all these evils be against me.)

Numbers 14:18[The] Lord (is) patient, and of much mercy, doing away wickedness and trespasses, and leaving no man unguilty, ( or innocent), which visitest the sins of (the) fathers into (the) sons into the third and fourth generation (or and who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children into the third and fourth generations),

Job 7:21Why doest thou not away my sin, and why takest thou not away my wickedness? Lo! now I shall sleep in dust, and if thou seekest me early, I shall not abide, (or Behold! now I shall sleep in the dust, and when thou seekest me in the morning, I shall already be dead).

Jeremiah 16:11thou shalt say to them, For your fathers forsook me, saith the Lord, and went after alien gods, and served them, and worshipped them, and they forsook me, and kept not my law. (thou shalt say to them, For your forefathers deserted me, saith the Lord, and went after strange, or foreign, gods, and served them, and worshipped them, yea, they deserted me, and did not keep, or obey, my law.)

Jeremiah 31:15The Lord saith these things, A voice of wailing, and of weeping, and of mourning, was heard on high (or was heard in Ramah); the voice of Rachel beweeping her sons, and not willing to be comforted on them, for they be not.

Ezekiel 16:58Thou hast borne thy great trespass, and thy shame, saith the Lord God.

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 →

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