Lamentations 5:7

American Standard Version (1901)

Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 16:12 : 12 and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:
  • Jer 31:29 : 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
  • Ezek 18:2 : 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?
  • Zech 1:5 : 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
  • Jer 14:20 : 20 We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus saith Jehovah: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
  • Gen 42:13 : 13 And they said, We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
  • Gen 42:36 : 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.
  • Matt 23:32-36 : 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell? 34 Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 106:6-7
    2 verses
    84%

    6We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

    7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

  • Lam 5:8
    80%

    8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

  • Jer 14:20
    79%

    20We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

  • Lam 5:6
    78%

    6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Ezra 9:7
    78%

    7Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Dan 9:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances;

    6neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, that spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Jer 3:24-25
    2 verses
    77%

    24But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

    25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    77%

    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Jehovah, and turned their backs.

  • Neh 9:33-36
    4 verses
    76%

    33Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

    34neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies wherewith thou didst testify against them.

    35For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

    36Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.

  • Jer 50:7
    76%

    7All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.

  • Dan 9:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Jehovah our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in thy truth.

    14Therefore hath Jehovah watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth, and we have not obeyed his voice.

    15And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

  • Lam 3:42-43
    2 verses
    76%

    42We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

    43Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

  • Dan 9:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    8O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

    9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;

    10neither have we obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

  • Isa 59:12
    75%

    12For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    75%

    7And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

  • Neh 1:7
    74%

    7we have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

  • Lev 26:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    39And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

    40And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me,

  • Jer 2:5
    74%

    5thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • Ezek 18:20
    74%

    20The soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

  • Neh 9:16
    73%

    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

  • Lam 5:3
    73%

    3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Ps 44:17
    73%

    17All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

  • Deut 24:16
    73%

    16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • Num 20:15
    72%

    15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • Neh 5:5
    72%

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already] : neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

  • Lam 5:16
    72%

    16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

  • Ps 78:3
    72%

    3Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.

  • Matt 23:30
    72%

    30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

  • Jer 14:7
    72%

    7Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O Jehovah; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

  • Hos 14:3
    71%

    3Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

  • Isa 43:27
    71%

    27Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

  • Isa 53:6
    71%

    6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

  • Isa 65:7
    71%

    7your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, that have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.

  • 1 Kgs 8:47
    71%

    47yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    71%

    9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Zech 1:5
    71%

    5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

  • Acts 7:39
    71%

    39to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

  • Ps 79:8
    71%

    8Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low.