Lamentations 5:7

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 16:12 : 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:
  • Jer 31:29 : 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.
  • 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 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;
  • Jer 14:20 : 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
  • Jer 31:15 : 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.
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
  • Gen 42:13 : 13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the younst 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 generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

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  • Ps 106:6-7
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    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 mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

  • Lam 5:8
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    8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

  • Jer 14:20
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    20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

  • Lam 5:6
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    6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Ezra 9:7
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    7Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass 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 a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Dan 9:5-6
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    5We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

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

  • Jer 3:24-25
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    24For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

    25We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • Neh 9:33-36
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    76%

    33Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast do right, but we have do wickedly:

    34ither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearked 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 goodss that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, ither turd they from their wicked works.

    36Behold, we are servants this day, and 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
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    7All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

  • Dan 9:13-15
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    76%

    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

    14Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not 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 y; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

  • Lam 3:42-43
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    76%

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

    43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast sin, thou hast not pitied.

  • Dan 9:8-10
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    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 forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

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    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
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    7And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

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

  • Lev 26:39-40
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    39And they that are ft 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.

    40If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

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    5Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity 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
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    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.

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    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and harded their cks, and hearked not to thy commandments,

  • Lam 5:3
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    3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

  • Ps 44:17
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    17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

  • Deut 24:16
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    16The fathers shall not be put to ath for the children, neither shall the children be put to ath for the fathers: every man shall be put to ath for his own sin.

  • Num 20:15
    72%

    15How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

  • Neh 5:5
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    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 unto bondage already: ither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and viyards.

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    16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

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

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  • Jer 14:7
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    7O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

  • Hos 14:3
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    3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon rses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

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

  • Isa 53:6
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    7Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

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

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

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    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned bk again into Egypt,

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    8O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.