Lamentations 5:7

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 42:13

They said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no longer living.”

Genesis 42:36

Then Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

Job 7:21

And why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust; and You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; your eyes will be on me, but I will be no more.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them who hate Me,

Jeremiah 14:20

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

Jeremiah 16:11

then you shall say to them: Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says the Lord, and have walked after other gods and have served them and have worshipped them, but have forsaken Me and have not kept My law.

Jeremiah 16:12

And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the imaginations of his evil heart, so that they do not listen to Me.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they will say no more: “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”

Ezekiel 16:58

You have borne the punishment of your lewdness and your abominations, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:2

What do you mean in using 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

So where are your fathers, and do the prophets live forever?

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.’