Lamentations 5:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 42:13

And they said, “We, your 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 no more.”

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin; all this has come upon me.”

Job 7:21

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

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy 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, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Jeremiah 14:20

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

Jeremiah 16:11

then you shall say to them: ‘Because your fathers 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 done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his 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 not.”

Jeremiah 31:29

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

Ezekiel 16:58

You 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 fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’?

Zechariah 1:5

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

Numbers 14:18

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