Lamentations 5:7

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What does Lamentations 5:7 mean?

Lamentations 5:7 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Lamentations 5:7

• Jeremiah 16:12

  And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

• Jeremiah 31:29

  In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

• 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?

• Jeremiah 14:20

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

• Exodus 20:5

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

• Matthew 23:32-36

  Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. …

• Jeremiah 31:15

  Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

• Genesis 42:36

  And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

• Job 7:21

  And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

• Genesis 42:13

  And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

• Job 7:8

  The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

• Zechariah 1:5

  Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

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Context

• Lamentations 5:6

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

• Lamentations 5:7

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

• Lamentations 5:8

  Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

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