Lamentations 5:7 “Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.”

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

World English Bible

Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

American Standard Version

Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

Geneva Bible 1599

Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.

Darby Translation

Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

Young's Literal Translation

Our fathers have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

Bible in Basic English

Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

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Cross references

“fathers”

Jeremiah 16:12 Jeremiah 31:29 Ezekiel 18:2 Exodus 20:5 Matthew 23:32–36

Jeremiah 16:12 · BSB

And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

Jeremiah 31:29 · BSB

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’

Ezekiel 18:2 · BSB

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Matthew 23:32–36 · BSB

Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

“and are”

Genesis 42:36 Jeremiah 31:15 Job 7:21 Genesis 42:13 Job 7:8 Zechariah 1:5

Genesis 42:36 · BSB

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

Jeremiah 31:15 · BSB

This 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.”

Job 7:21 · BSB

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

Genesis 42:13 · BSB

But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

Job 7:8 · BSB

The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

Zechariah 1:5 · BSB

Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Also

Jeremiah 14:20

Jeremiah 14:20 · BSB

We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

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