Lamentations 5:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Our ancestors, who sinned, are no more; but now we bear their guilt.

Cross References

Genesis 42:13

“We your servants,” they said, “are twelve brothers, sons of a certain man in Canaan; but the youngest one is at present with our father, and the other one is no more.”

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them: “Must you make me childless? Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin away! All these things have happened to me!”

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my offense, or take away my guilt? For soon I shall lie down in the dust; and should you seek me I shall be gone.

Job 7:8

The eye that now sees me shall no more behold me; when your eye is on me, I shall be gone.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their ancestors’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;

Jeremiah 14:20

We recognize our wickedness, Lord, the guilt of our ancestors: we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 16:11

you shall answer them: It is because your ancestors have forsaken me—oracle of the Lord—and followed other gods that they served and worshiped; but me they have forsaken, and my law they did not keep.

Jeremiah 16:12

And you have done worse than your ancestors. Here you are, every one of you, walking in the stubbornness of your evil heart instead of listening to me.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord: In Ramah is heard the sound of sobbing, bitter weeping! Rachel mourns for her children, she refuses to be consoled for her children—they are no more!

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they shall no longer say, “The parents ate unripe grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge,”

Ezekiel 16:58

The penalty of your depravity and your abominations—you must bear it all—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:2

what is the meaning of this proverb you recite in the land of Israel: “Parents eat sour grapes, but the children’s teeth are set on edge”?

Zechariah 1:5

Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, can they live forever?

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in kindness, forgiving iniquity and rebellion; yet certainly not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children to the third and fourth generation for their parents’ iniquity.’