Lamentations 5:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 16:12 : 12 Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me.
  • Jer 31:29 : 29 In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.
  • Ezek 18:2 : 2 `What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?
  • Zech 1:5 : 5 Your fathers -- where `are' they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third `generation', and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
  • Jer 14:20 : 20 We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus said Jehovah, A voice in Ramah is heard, wailing, weeping most bitter, Rachel is weeping for her sons, She hath refused to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes `are' upon me -- and I am not.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!
  • Gen 42:13 : 13 and they say, `Thy servants `are' twelve brethren; we `are' sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one `is' with our father to-day, and the one is not.'
  • Gen 42:36 : 36 and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take -- against me have been all these.'
  • Matt 23:32-36 : 32 and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers. 33 `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna? 34 `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: 36 verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

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

    7Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.

  • Lam 5:8
    80%

    8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

  • Jer 14:20
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    20We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.

  • Lam 5:6
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    6`To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Ezra 9:7
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    7`From the days of our fathers we `are' in great guilt unto this day, and in our iniquities we have been given -- we, our kings, our priests -- into the hand of the kings of the lands, with sword, with captivity, and with spoiling, and with shame of face, as `at' this day.

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    5we have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy judgments:

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    24And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters.

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  • Neh 9:33-36
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    76%

    33and Thou `art' righteous concerning all that hath come upon us, for truth Thou hast done, and we have done wickedly;

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    35and they, in their kingdom, and in Thine abundant goodness, that Thou hast given to them, and in the land, the large and the fat, that Thou hast set before them, have not served Thee, nor turned back from their evil doings.

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    13as it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil hath come upon us, and we have not appeased the face of Jehovah our God to turn back from our iniquities, and to act wisely in Thy truth.

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    15And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought forth Thy people from the land of Egypt by a strong hand, and dost make for Thee a name as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

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    12For our transgressions have been multiplied before Thee, And our sins have testified against us, For our transgressions `are' with us, And our iniquities -- we have known them.

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    74%

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    71%

    8Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.