Lamentations 5:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.

Cross References

Genesis 42:13

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of a certain man in the land of Canaan; the youngest, however, is now with our father, and one is no more.”

Genesis 42:36

And their father Jacob said to them, “I am the one you have bereaved of children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has happened to me!”

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”

Job 7:8

The eye that beholds me will see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 16:11

then you shall say to them: It is because your ancestors have forsaken me, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,

Jeremiah 16:12

and because you have behaved worse than your ancestors, for here you are, every one of you, following your stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me.

Jeremiah 31:15

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

Jeremiah 31:29

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

Ezekiel 16:58

You must bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:2

What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?

Zechariah 1:5

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

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.’