King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:7
“Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.”
Verse 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.
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Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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