Lamentations 5:7

A Request For Mercy

⁶ We have given the hand to Egypt, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread. ⁷ Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities. ⁸ Servants rule over us; there is no rescuer out of their hand.

Bear Their Iniquity

No

Sin

Jeremiah 16:12

And you have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, you walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to Me;

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they shall not say any more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.

Ezekiel 18:2

What is it to you that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the sons are dull?

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 to them, You have bereaved me. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin. All these things are against me.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me,

Job 7:8

The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; Your eyes are on me, and I am gone.

Job 7:21

And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust, and You shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 31:15

So says Jehovah: A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her sons; she refuses to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.

Zechariah 1:5

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

Matthew 23:32-36

and you fill up the measure of your fathers.