Lamentations 5:7
in Lamentations 5Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
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ASV
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
KJV
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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This verse in Lamentations 5
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
And are not; and we ... - Or, they are not; “we have borne their iniquities.” Our fathers who began this national apostasy died before the hour of punishment.
This site's exposition
Our fathers have sinned, and are not
on Lamentations 5:7-8
Verse 7 states generational consequence honestly, our fathers have sinned and are not, and we have borne their iniquities, the fathers dead and the children left carrying what they began, read by the bench alongside Jeremiah 31:29-30's repeal of the same proverb rather than against it, present suffering held with future personal accountability. Verse 8 completes the humiliation, servants have ruled over us, there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand, the covenant people governed by those they once governed.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
(Jer 31:29). borne their iniquities--that is, the punishment of them. The accumulated sins of our fathers from age to age, as well as our own, are visited on us.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֲבֹתֵ֤ינוּ | ʾavoteinu | ancestors our | H1 → | |
| חָֽטְאוּ֙ | chateu | they sinned | H2398 → | 238 times |
| וְאֵינָ֔ם | veeinam | and not [are] they | H369 → | 789 times |
| וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ | vaanachnu | and we | H587 → | |
| עֲוֹנֹתֵיהֶ֥ם | ʾavonoteihem | iniquities their | H5771 → | 233 times |
| סָבָֽלְנוּ׃ | savalnu | we have borne | H5445 → |
אֲבֹתֵ֤ינוּancestors our
ʾavoteinuH1 →
חָֽטְאוּ֙they sinned
chateuH2398 →238 times
וְאֵינָ֔םand not [are] they
veeinamH369 →789 times
וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּand we
vaanachnuH587 →
עֲוֹנֹתֵיהֶ֥םiniquities their
ʾavonoteihemH5771 →233 times
סָבָֽלְנוּ׃we have borne
savalnuH5445 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 5:9
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…
- Numbers 14:18
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon…
- Deuteronomy 4:24
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
- Exodus 34:14
For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
- Joshua 24:19
But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.
- Deuteronomy 5:9
Through
Ezekiel 18:2“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
it leads to
- Jeremiah 31:29–30
“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
- Jeremiah 31:29–30
Through
Jeremiah 31:29“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
it leads to
- Ezekiel 18:2–3
“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
- Ezekiel 18:2–3
Through
Jeremiah 16:12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
- Jeremiah 7:26
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.