Lamentations 5:7

A Request For Mercy

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We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
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Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is we who have carried their sin.
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Servants rule over us;
There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.

Bear Their Iniquity

No

Sin

Jeremiah 16:12

and because you have done worse [things] than your fathers. Just look, every one of you walks in the stubbornness of his own evil heart, so that you do not listen [obediently] 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,

‘The fathers eat sour grapes [they sin],
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; please listen: the youngest is with our father today, and one is no longer alive.”

Genesis 42:36

Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me [by causing the loss] of my children. Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin [from me]. All these things are [working] against me.”

Exodus 20:5

You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine], visiting (avenging) the iniquity (sin, guilt) of the fathers on the children [that is, calling the children to account for the sins of their fathers], to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Job 7:8

“The eye of him who sees me [now] will see me no more;
Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be.

Job 7:21

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

Jeremiah 14:20

We know and acknowledge, O Lord,
Our wickedness and 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 (songs of mourning) and bitter weeping.
Rachel (Israel) is weeping for her children;
She refuses to be comforted for her children,
Because they are gone.”

Zechariah 1:5

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

Matthew 23:32-36

Fill up, then, the [allotted] measure of the guilt of your fathers’ sins.