Verse 7
Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
Referenced Verses
- Jer 16:12 : 12 And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:
- Jer 31:29 : 29 In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.
- Ezek 18:2 : 2 Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?
- Zech 1:5 : 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
- Exod 20:5 : 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
- Jer 14:20 : 20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
- Jer 31:15 : 15 So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss.
- Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
- Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
- Gen 42:13 : 13 Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.
- Gen 42:36 : 36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.
- Matt 23:32-36 : 32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell? 34 For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town; 35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.