Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. The final lament is a communal prayer that lacks the alphabetic acrostic of the previous four poems. The community cries for God to remember: their inheritance has been turned over to strangers, women have been violated, and old men sit …
Autres traductions
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned--they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
Références croisées
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous …
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the …
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I …
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are …
Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused …
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil …
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, …
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is …