Lamentations 5:7 · KJV
“Our fathers have sinned, {and are} not; and we have borne their iniquities.”
— Lamentations 5:7
We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand.
Lamentations 5 — Context
Our necks {are} under persecution: we labour, {and} have no rest. {Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted}
6We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, {and are} not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:29
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Jeremiah 16:12
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: {imagination: or, stubbornness}
Ezekiel 18:2
What mean ye, that ye 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 thee.
Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God {am} a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth {generation} of them that hate me;
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved {of my children}: Joseph {is} not, and Simeon {is} not, and ye will take Benjamin {away}: all these things are against me.
Matthew 23:32-36
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, {and} bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they {were} not.