Lamentations 5:7

A Request For Mercy

⁶ We made a treaty with Egypt
and with Assyria, to get enough food.
⁷ Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist,
but we bear their punishment.
⁸ Slaves rule over us;
no one rescues us from their hands.

Bear Their Iniquity

No

Sin

Jeremiah 16:12

You did more evil than your fathers. Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying Me.

Jeremiah 31:29

“In those days, it will never again be said:

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,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge?

Genesis 42:13

But they replied, “We, your servants, were 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer living.”

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me!”

Exodus 20:5

You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Job 7:8

The eye of anyone who looks on me
will no longer see me.
Your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

Job 7:21

Why not forgive my sin
and pardon my transgression?
For soon I will lie down in the grave.
You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge our wickedness, Lord,
the guilt of our fathers;
indeed, we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 31:15

This is what the Lord says:

A voice was heard in Ramah,
a lament with bitter weeping—
Rachel weeping for her children,
refusing to be comforted for her children
because they are no more.

Zechariah 1:5

“Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

Matthew 23:32-36

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ sins!