Lamentations 5:7
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
- KJV
- Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
- WEB
- Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
- ASV
- Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
- DARBY
- Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
- BLB
- Our fathers sinned, and [are] no more, and we bear their iniquities.
- ÅB
- Våre fedre har syndet, de er ikke mere; vi bærer deres misgjerninger.
- OTB
- Våre forfedre syndet og er ikke lenger her, men vi bærer konsekvensene av deres feil.
- B1930
- Våre fedre har syndet, de er ikke mere; vi bærer deres misgjerninger.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 16:12
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
Read in contextJeremiah 31:29
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:2
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
Read in contextJeremiah 14:20
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
Read in contextExodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Read in contextMatthew 23:32–36
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Read in contextJeremiah 31:15
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Read in contextGenesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
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