Lamentations 5:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.

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  • Jer 16:12 : 12 And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one walks after the imagination of his evil heart, so that you do not listen to me.
  • Jer 31:29 : 29 In those days they shall no longer say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
  • Ezek 18:2 : 2 What do you mean by using 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 forever?
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.
  • Jer 14:20 : 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
  • Gen 42:13 : 13 And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.
  • Gen 42:36 : 36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
  • Matt 23:32-36 : 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

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

    7Our ancestors did not understand your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of your mercies, but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

  • Lam 5:8
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    8Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from 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 You.

  • Lam 5:6
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    6We have given our 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 we have been in a great trespass to this day; and because of our iniquities, we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

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

    6Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your 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 has devoured the labor 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 covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to 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 evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • Neh 9:33-36
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    33However, You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have done right, but we have acted wickedly.

    34Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our forefathers kept Your law, nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, which You testified against them.

    35For they have not served You in their kingdom, or in the vast and fertile land that You gave them, nor did they turn from their wicked works.

    36Here we are, servants today! And the land that You gave to our forefathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, here we are, servants in it.

  • Jer 50:7
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    7All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

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

    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

    15And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

  • Lam 3:42-43
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    42We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.

    43You have covered Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.

  • Dan 9:8-10
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    8O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

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

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

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    7We have dealt very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which You commanded Your servant Moses.

  • Lev 26:39-40
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    39And those who are left of you shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste 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 to me;

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    5Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

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    20The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor 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 forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

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  • Ps 44:17
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    17All this has come upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.

  • Deut 24:16
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    16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • Num 20:15
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    15how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted 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 indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

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    16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

  • Ps 78:3
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    3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

  • Matt 23:30
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    30and say, If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

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  • Hos 14:3
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    3Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you the orphan finds mercy.

  • Isa 43:27
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    27Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against Me.

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

  • Isa 65:7
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    7Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, who have burned incense on the mountains and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore I will measure their former work into their lap.

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    47Yet if they shall come to themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

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    9For behold, 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 forever?

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    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

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    8O do not remember against us former iniquities; let Your tender mercies swiftly come to us, for we are brought very low.