Lamentations 5:7

A Request For Mercy

⁶ We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
⁷ Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is we who have borne their iniquities.
⁸ Slaves rule over us;
There is no one to deliver us from their hand.

Bear Their Iniquity

No

Sin

Jeremiah 16:12

You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Jeremiah 31:29

“In those days they will not say again,
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

Ezekiel 18:2

“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
‘The fathers eat the sour grapes,
But the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

Genesis 42:13

But they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers in all, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no longer alive.”

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.”

Exodus 20:5

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Job 7:8

“The eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer;
Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

Job 7:21

“Why then do You not pardon my transgression
And take away my iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the dust;
And You will seek me, but I will not be.”

Jeremiah 14:20

We know our wickedness, O Lord,
The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord,
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
She refuses to be comforted for her children,
Because they are no more.”

Zechariah 1:5

“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Matthew 23:32-36

Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.