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Lamentations 5:7
7Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.
Lamentations 5:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!
Context of Lamentations 5:7
5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest. 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment. 8Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands. 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in 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 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Jeremiah 16:12But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me.
- Jeremiah 31:29“In those days people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
- Ezekiel 18:2“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: “ ‘The parents eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
- Matthew 23:32Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
- Genesis 42:13But they replied, “Your servants were twelve brothers, the sons of one man, who lives in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
- Job 7:8The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.
- Jeremiah 31:15This is what the Lord says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- Zechariah 1:5Where are your ancestors now? 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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