English Standard Version
Lamentations 5:7
7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!
Context of Lamentations 5:7
5Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest. 6We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. 8Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
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 shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Jeremiah 16:12and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.
- Jeremiah 31:29In those days they shall no longer say: "'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'
- Ezekiel 18:2"What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?
- Matthew 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
- Genesis 42:13And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."
- Job 7:8The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
- Jeremiah 31:15Thus says the Lord: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more."
- Zechariah 1:5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
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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