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Lamentations 5:7

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

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

v.7This passage

v.8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 7:21

    And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

  • Matthew 23:32

    Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

  • Jeremiah 16:12

    and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:

  • Ezekiel 18:2

    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?

  • Exodus 20:5

    thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,

  • Jeremiah 14:20

    We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.