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

Other Translations of Lamentations 5:7

New International Version

7 Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.

English Standard Version

7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.

The Message

7 Our parents sinned and are no more, and now we're paying for the wrongs they did.

New King James Version

7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.

New Living Translation

7 Our ancestors sinned, but they have died- and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Lamentations 5:7

Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16

(Read Lamentations 5:1-16)

Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned! All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly. Though our sins and God's just displeasure cause our sufferings, we may hope in his pardoning mercy, his sanctifying grace, and his kind providence. But the sins of a man's whole life will be punished with vengeance at last, unless he obtains an interest in Him who bare our sins in his own body on the tree.