Lamentations 5:7

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 16:12 : 12 and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to 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 do you mean, that you 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 forever?
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
  • Jer 14:20 : 20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
  • Gen 42:13 : 13 They said, "We, 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 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
  • Matt 23:32-36 : 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? 34 Therefore, behold, 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 Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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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 didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, 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, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

  • Lam 5:6
    78%

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

  • Ezra 9:7
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    7Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for 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 plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Dan 9:5-6
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    5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;

    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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    24But the shameful thing has 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 Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God."

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

  • Neh 9:33-36
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    76%

    33However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

    34neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

    35For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them, neither did they turn from their wicked works.

    36"Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

  • Jer 50:7
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    7All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, 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 on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.

    14Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

    15Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

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

    43You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.

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

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

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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:

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • Neh 1:7
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    7We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.

  • Lev 26:39-40
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    39Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

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    74%

    5Thus says Yahweh, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • Ezek 18:20
    74%

    20The soul who sins, he 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 on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

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    16"But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your 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 has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

  • Deut 24:16
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    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 lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • Neh 5:5
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    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. 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 to us! for we have sinned.

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

  • Matt 23:30
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  • Jer 14:7
    72%

    7Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

  • Hos 14:3
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    3Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy."

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

  • Isa 53:6
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  • Isa 65:7
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    47yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;'

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    71%

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

  • Zech 1:5
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    5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

  • Acts 7:39
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    39to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

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    71%

    8Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.