Lamentations 5:7

A Request For Mercy

⁶ We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread. ⁷ Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us. ⁸ Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

Bear Their Iniquity

No

Sin

Jeremiah 16:12

And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.

Ezekiel 18:2

Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?

Genesis 42:13

Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

Exodus 20:5

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Job 7:8

The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

Job 7:21

And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

Jeremiah 14:20

We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

Jeremiah 31:15

So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss.

Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

Matthew 23:32-36

Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.