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Lamentations 5:7
7Our ancestors sinned, but they are dead. Now we have the troubles that you caused because of them. You punished us because of their sin.
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 enemies cause us to work like animals. But the work is too difficult and they will not let us rest. 6We gave ourselves to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, so that we could get food to eat. Our ancestors sinned, but they are dead. Now we have the troubles that you caused because of them. You punished us because of their sin. 8Slaves now rule us. And there is nobody to save us from their power. 9We meet danger when we work in the fields. Enemies are everywhere and they want to kill us.
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:7 word by word
אֲבֹתֵ֤ינוּ חָֽטְאוּ֙ וְאֵינָ֔ם וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ עֲוֹנֹתֵיהֶ֥ם סָבָֽלְנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:7
- Exodus 20:5You must not bend down your head to any idol or worship it. I am the Lord your God and I want you to belong to me alone. I will punish children because of the bad things that their fathers have done. I will also punish their children and their grandchildren too. That is how I will punish everyone who turns against me.
- Jeremiah 16:12And you have done even more wicked things than your ancestors! You do any wicked thing that you want to do. You refuse to change. You do not obey me.
- Jeremiah 31:29‘When that happens, people will not say, “The fathers have eaten bitter fruit, but it causes their children's teeth to hurt.”
- Ezekiel 18:2‘You say this proverb about Israel: “The fathers have eaten bitter fruit, but it causes their children's teeth to hurt.” Why do you say that?
- Matthew 23:32Now you must finish the work that your ancestors began to do!
- Genesis 42:13Joseph's brothers replied, ‘We belong to a family of 12 brothers. We are the sons of one man who lives in Canaan. Our youngest brother stayed at home with our father. One other brother is not with us any more.’
- Job 7:8People who can see me now will not see me any more. You will look for me, but I will not be there.
- Jeremiah 31:15The Lord says, ‘You can hear a sad noise in Ramah. Someone is weeping with a loud voice. It is Rachel, and she is weeping for her children. Nobody can help her to stop weeping, because her children are dead.’
- Zechariah 1:5That was a long time ago. Your ancestors have been dead for a long time. So have the prophets.
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
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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
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