A Prayer for Restoration
Lamentations 5:7
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
- KJV
- Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
- WEB
- Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
- ASV
- Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
- LSV
- Our fathers have sinned—they are not, || We have borne their iniquities.
- YLT
- Our fathers have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
- DBY
- Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
- DRC
- Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
- GNV
- Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
- JPS
- Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
- LXXE
- Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Where the editions differ
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- Written (Ketiv): אֵינָם (“not [are] they”). Read aloud (Qere): וְאֵינָ֔ם (“and not [are] they”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
- Written (Ketiv): אֲנַחְנוּ (“we”). Read aloud (Qere): וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ (“and we”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads ְאֵינָ֔ם; read aloud (Qere) reads וְאֵינָ֔ם (“and not [are] they”).
- Leningrad Codex reads ַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ; read aloud (Qere) reads וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ (“and we”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֲבֹתֵ֤ינוּ חָֽטְאוּ֙ אינם אנחנו עֲוֺנֹתֵיהֶ֥ם סָבָֽלְנוּ׃Read aloud as (qere): וְאֵינָ֔םRead aloud as (qere): וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ
- LXX-Br
- Οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν ἥμαρτον, οὐχ ὑπάρχουσιν, ἡμεῖς τὰ ἀνομήματα αὐτῶν ὑπέσχομεν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 16:12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
- Jeremiah 31:29“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
- Ezekiel 18:2“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
- Jeremiah 14:20We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
- Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Jeremiah 31:15This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- Matthew 23:32–36Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers. You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell? Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you…
- Genesis 42:36Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
- Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Genesis 42:13But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
- Zechariah 1:5Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
- Job 7:8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).