Lamentations 5:7

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 31:29

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

Jeremiah 16:12

And ye have done evil more than your fathers, for, behold, ye walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not to me.

Ezekiel 18:2

What do ye mean, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the son's teeth are set on edge?

Jeremiah 14:20

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

Exodus 20:5

Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, 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 those who hate me,

Jeremiah 31:15

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

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of my sons. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.

Zechariah 1:5

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

Job 7:21

And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

Genesis 42:13

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

Numbers 14:18

LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth gene

Jeremiah 16:11

Then thou shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says 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.

Ezekiel 16:58

Thou have borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, says LORD.