Lamentations 5:7

A Request For Mercy

⁶ We gave the hand to Egypt, to Assur, to be filled with bread. ⁷ Our fathers sinned, they are not; we bore their iniquities. ⁸ Servants ruled over us: none delivering from their hand.

Bear Their Iniquity

No

Sin

Jeremiah 16:12

And ye acted wickedly to do more than your fathers; and behold, you going a man after the stubbornness of his evil heart for not hearing to me.

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they shall no more say, The fathers ate sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted.

Ezekiel 18:2

What to you making use of this parable upon the land of Israel, saying, The fathers will eat sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted?

Genesis 42:13

And they will say, Thy servants twelve brethren; we the sons of one man in the land of Canaan: and behold, the little one with our father this day, and one, not

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father will say to them, Me ye bereaved of children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin: all these things were against me.

Exodus 20:5

Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me;

Job 7:8

The eye of him seeing me shall not look after me: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not

Job 7:21

And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not

Jeremiah 14:20

We knew, O Jehovah, our evil, the iniquity of our fathers: for we sinned to thee.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus said Jehovah, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping of bitterness; Rachel, weeping for her sons, refused to be comforted for her sons, for they are not

Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live forever?

Matthew 23:32-36

And fill ye up yourselves the measure of your fathers.