Lamentations 5:7

A Request For Mercy

⁶ To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. ⁷ Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne. ⁸ Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

Bear Their Iniquity

No

Sin

Jeremiah 16:12

Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me.

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

Ezekiel 18:2

What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?

Genesis 42:13

and they say, 'Thy servants are twelve brethren; we are sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one is with our father to-day, and the one is not.'

Genesis 42:36

and Jacob their father saith unto them, 'Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take -- against me have been all these.'

Exodus 20:5

Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

Job 7:8

The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me -- and I am not.

Job 7:21

Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

Jeremiah 14:20

We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus said Jehovah, A voice in Ramah is heard, wailing, weeping most bitter, Rachel is weeping for her sons, She hath refused to be comforted for her sons, because they are not.

Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers -- where are they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?

Matthew 23:32-36

and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers.