But they said: "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father; the other is not living."
Lamentations 5:7 - Catholic Public Domain Version Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities. [Isa. 65:7; Jer. 16:11-12; 31:29; Ezek. 18:2-4.] American Standard Version (1901) Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. Common English Bible Our fathers have sinned and are gone, but we are burdened with their iniquities. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Our fathers have sinned and are not: and we have borne their iniquities. English Standard Version 2016 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. |
But they said: "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father; the other is not living."
Their father Jacob said, "You have caused me to be without children. Joseph is not living, Simeon is held in chains, and Benjamin you would carry away. All these evils have fallen back upon me."
Why do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.
Neither will the sight of man gaze upon me; your eyes are upon me, and I will not endure.
You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
O Lord, we acknowledge our impieties, the iniquities of our fathers, that we have sinned against you.
And you shall say to them: It is because your fathers abandoned me, says the Lord. And they went after strange gods, and they served them and adored them. And they abandoned me, and they did not keep my law.
But you have acted even worse than your fathers. For behold, each one walks after the depravity of his own evil heart, so that he does not listen to me.
Thus says the Lord: "A voice has been heard on high: of lamentation, mourning, and weeping; of Rachel crying for her sons and refusing to be consoled over them, because they are not."
In those days, they will no longer say: 'The fathers ate a bitter grape, and the teeth of the sons have been affected.'
"Why is it that you circulate among yourselves this parable, as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: 'The fathers ate a bitter grape, and the teeth of the sons have been affected.'
'The Lord is patient and full of mercy, taking away iniquity and wickedness, and forsaking no one who is harmless. He visits the sins of the fathers upon the sons, to the third and fourth generation.'