Lamentations 5:7

New King James Version

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

Cross References

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.’

Jeremiah 16:12

And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.

Ezekiel 18:2

“What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’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 You.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord: “A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more.”

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me: Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin. All these things are against me.”

Zechariah 1:5

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

Job 7:21

Why then 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 no longer be.”

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me will see me no more; While your eyes are upon me, I shall no longer be.

Genesis 42:13

And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and in fact, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.”

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’

Jeremiah 16:11

then you shall say to them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ says the Lord; ‘they have walked after other gods and have served them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and not kept My law.

Ezekiel 16:58

You have paid for your lewdness and your abominations,” says the Lord.