Lamentations 5:7
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

Jeremiah 14:20
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

Jeremiah 16:12
And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to hearken to me.

Jeremiah 31:29
In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

Ezekiel 18:2
That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always?

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

fathers

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Jeremiah 16:12 And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to hearken to me.

Jeremiah 31:29 In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

Ezekiel 18:2 That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

Matthew 23:32-36 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. . . .

and are

Genesis 42:13,36 But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living. . . .

Job 7:8,21 Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more. . . .

Jeremiah 31:15 Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted for them, because they are not.

Zechariah 1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always?

Context
A Prayer for Restoration
6We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread. 7Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.8Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.…
Lexicon
Our fathers
אֲבֹתֵ֤ינוּ (’ă·ḇō·ṯê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

sinned
חָֽטְאוּ֙ (ḥā·ṭə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn

[and are] no more,
וְאֵינָ֔ם (wə·’ê·nām)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

but we
וַאֲנַ֖חְנוּ (wa·’ă·naḥ·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 587: We

bear
סָבָֽלְנוּ׃ (sā·ḇā·lə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5445: To carry, be burdensome, to be gravid

their punishment.
עֲוֺנֹתֵיהֶ֥ם (‘ă·wō·nō·ṯê·hem)
Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity


Additional Translations
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

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

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

Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

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

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

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

Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
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