Lamentations 5:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ Our fathers sinned, they are no more. We have borne their crookednesses.

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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.

Lamentations 5:7 Cross References

Genesis 42:13

And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Kenaʽ

Genesis 42:36

And Yaʽ

Job 7:21

And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my crookedness? For now I lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me, but I am not.”

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me sees me no longer. Your eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

Exodus 20:5

you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, יהוה  your Elohim am a jealous Ě

Jeremiah 14:20

O יהוה, we know our wrong and the crookedness of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 16:11

then you shall say to them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ declares יהוה, ‘and have walked after other mighty ones and served them and bowed themselves to them, and have forsaken Me, and did not guard My Torah.

Jeremiah 16:12

‘And you have done more evil than your fathers, for look, each one walks according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus said יהוה, “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing, bitter weeping, Raḥ

Jeremiah 31:29

“In those days they shall no longer say, ‘The fathers ate sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are blunted.’

Ezekiel 16:58

“You shall bear your wickedness and your abominations,” declares יהוה.

Ezekiel 18:2

“What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Yisra’ĕ

Zechariah 1:5

“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Numbers 14:18

‘יהוה  is patient and of great kindness, forgiving crookedness and transgression, but by no means leaving unpunished; visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’