Lamentations 5:7 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.”
Lamentations 5:7 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 5:7 in 6 Bible Translations
Read Lamentations 5:7 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Lamentations 5:7 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.”
Lamentations 5:7 — World English Bible
Lamentations 5:7 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. ”
Lamentations 5:7 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 5:7 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Our fathers have sinned--they are not, We their iniquities have borne.”
Lamentations 5:7 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 5:7 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities. ”
Lamentations 5:7 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 5:7 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.”
Lamentations 5:7 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 5:7 in Context — Lamentations 5
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
What Does Lamentations 5:7 Mean?
Lamentations 5:7 is a verse from the Book of Lamentations, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Lamentations chapter 5. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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