God’s Word Translation
Lamentations 5:7
7Our ancestors sinned. Now they are gone, ⌞but⌟ we have to take the punishment for their wickedness.
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
5⌞Our enemies⌟ are breathing down our necks. We are worn out ⌞and⌟ not permitted to rest. 6We had to beg Egypt and Assyria for food. Our ancestors sinned. Now they are gone, ⌞but⌟ we have to take the punishment for their wickedness. 8Slaves rule us. There is no one to rescue us from them. 9To get our food, we have to risk our lives in the heat of the desert.
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 20:5Never worship them or serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a God who does not tolerate rivals. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.
- Jeremiah 16:12You have done worse than your ancestors. All of you are following your own stubborn, evil ways that keep you from obeying me.
- Jeremiah 31:29“When those days come, people will no longer say, ‘Fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children’s teeth are set on edge.’
- Ezekiel 18:2“What do you mean when you use this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘Fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children’s teeth are set on edge’?
- Matthew 23:32Go ahead, finish what your ancestors started!
- Genesis 42:13They answered him, “We were 12 brothers, sons of one man in Canaan. The youngest brother stayed with our father, and the other one is no longer with us.”
- Job 7:8The eye that watches over me will no longer see me. Your eye will look for me, but I’ll be gone.
- Jeremiah 31:15This is what the Lord says: A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of crying in bitter grief. Rachel is crying for her children. She refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.
- Zechariah 1:5Your ancestors—where are they now? And the prophets—are they still alive?
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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