Lamentations 5:7
Verse 7 of 22. The 5th of 5 chapters in Lamentations, in The Major Prophets.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:7 in the World English Bible
Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.Read Lamentations 5:7 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:7
This comes in in the midst of their complaints (v. 7), but may well be put in the front of them: Our fathers have sinned and are not; they are dead and gone, but we have borne their iniquities. This is not here a peevish complaint, nor an imputation of unrighteousness to God, like that which we have, Jer. xxxi. 29, Ezek. xviii. 2.
Read Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:1–16: An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. (b. c. 588.)
Pray Lamentations 5:7 with someone reading it aloud.
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