THEOSISLamentations 5:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
אֲבֹתֵ֤ינוּ חָֽטְאוּ֙ אינם וְאֵינָ֔ם אנחנו וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ עֲוֺנֹתֵיהֶ֥ם סָבָֽלְנוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 31:29In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.
- Jer 16:12And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to hearken to me.
- Jer 14:20We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
- Ezek 18:2That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.
- Ex 20:5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
- Jer 31:15Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted for them, because they are not.
- Gen 42:36Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.
- Matt 23:32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.