Lamentations 5:7

World English Bible

Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
We have borne their iniquities.

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Lamentations 5:7 in other translations

Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:7 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 5:7 in context

  1. 5Our pursuers are on our necks.
    We are weary, and have no rest.
  2. 6We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
    and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
  3. 7Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
    We have borne their iniquities.
  4. 8Servants rule over us.
    There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
  5. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
    because of the sword of the wilderness.