Lamentations 5:7

Lamentations 5:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
• New International Version (NIV)Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.

Context of Lamentations 5:7

5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. 6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. 8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:7 word by word

אֲבֹתֵ֤ינוּ חָֽטְאוּ֙ וְאֵינָ֔ם וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ עֲוֹנֹתֵיהֶ֥ם סָבָֽלְנוּ׃Read the interlinear

• fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• sinnedחָטָאchâţâ' · to sinH2398
• iniquitiesעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771

Cross-references for Lamentations 5:7

• Exodus 20:5thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
• Jeremiah 16:12and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:
• Jeremiah 31:29In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
• Ezekiel 18:2What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
• Matthew 23:32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
• Genesis 42:13And they said, We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
• Job 7:8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
• Jeremiah 31:15Thus saith Jehovah: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
• Zechariah 1:5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Commentaries on Lamentations 5:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Our fathers have sinned, and are not - Nations, as such, cannot be punished in the other world; therefore national judgments are to be looked for only in this life. The punishment which the Jewish nation had been meriting for a series of years came now upon them, because they copied and increased the sins of their fathers, and the cup of their iniquity was full. Thus the children might be said to bear the sins of the fathers, that is, in temporal…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7And are not; and we … - Or, they are not; “we have borne their iniquities.” Our fathers who began this national apostasy died before the hour of punishment.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. (Jr 31:29). borne their iniquities--that is, the punishment of them. The accumulated sins of our fathers from age to age, as well as our own, are visited on us. They say this as a plea why God should pity them (compare Eze 18:2, &c.).Read the comment

Topics related to Lamentations 5:7

• Parents
• Patriotism
• Punishment
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Crown
• Persecution
• Acrostic
• Lamentations, Book of
• Poetry, Hebrew

Commentaries on Lamentations 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings