Lamentations 5:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Our fathers have sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities. [Isa. 65:7; Jer. 16:11-12; 31:29; Ezek. 18:2-4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

Common English Bible

⁷ Our fathers have sinned and are gone, but we are burdened with their iniquities.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Our fathers have sinned and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:7 Cross References

Genesis 42:13

And they said, We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

Genesis 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.

Job 7:21

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou shall seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

Job 7:8

The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more: Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

Exodus 20:5

thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

Jeremiah 16:11

Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

Jeremiah 16:12

and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus saith the LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Ezekiel 16:58

Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.

Ezekiel 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?

Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Numbers 14:18

The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.