Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
New American Standard Bible
It is we who have borne their iniquities.
King James Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Holman Bible
but we bear their punishment.
International Standard Version
Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.
A Conservative Version
Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.
American Standard Version
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
Amplified
Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is
Bible in Basic English
Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
Darby Translation
Our fathers have sinned, and they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
Julia Smith Translation
Our fathers sinned, they are not; we bore their iniquities.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity.
Modern King James verseion
Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Our fathers, which now are gone, have sinned; and we must bear their wickedness.
NET Bible
Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.
New Heart English Bible
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; we have borne their iniquities.
The Emphasized Bible
Our fathers, sinned, and are not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.
Webster
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
World English Bible
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.
Youngs Literal Translation
Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
Themes
Error » Definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Heredity » General references to
Judgments » Inflicted upon » Posterity of sinners
Parents » Sins of, visited on their children
Parent's sins » Visited upon children » General references to
Punishment » Entailed » Upon children
Sin » Conviction of, results of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Transgression » Sin, definition of » Consequences of parents' sins upon children
Topics
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 16:12
And you have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, you walk everyone after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
Jeremiah 31:29
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Ezekiel 18:2
What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Genesis 42:13
And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have you bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Job 7:8
The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Job 7:21
And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Jeremiah 14:20
We 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 was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?
Matthew 23:32-36
Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.