“ Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. ”
And are not; and we ... - Or, they are not; “we have borne their iniquities.” Our fathers who began this national apostasy died before the hour of punishment.
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne (d) their iniquities. (d) As our fathers have been punished for their sins: so we that are guilty of the same sins are punished.
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
borne. As. burden. The same word as in Isaiah 53:4 ; Isaiah 53:11 . iniquities. Hebrew. avah. App-44.
The Prophet seems here to contend with God, and to utter that blasphemy mentioned by Ezekiel. For when God severely chastised the people, that proverb was commonly used by them, “ Our fathers...
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Our fathers have sinned, and are not - Nations, as such, cannot be punished in the other world; therefore national judgment...
Our fathers have sinned— That is, "Though our fathers have been guilty of great sins, they have died without signal punishment and calamities; which are come upon us their children, who thus bear t...
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 - ( Jeremiah 31:29 , "The fathers have eaten...
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
We have borne their iniquities. — The words seem at first parallel to the proverb of the “sour grapes” in Jeremiah 31:29 ; Ezekiel 18:2 . Here, however, it is followed in Lamentations 5:16 by a...
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1-10 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not ,.... In the world, as the Targum adds; they were in being, but not on earth; they were departed from hence, and gone into another world; and so were free from...
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities. Ver. 7. Our fathers have sinned, and are not. ] They had their payment, but not comparable to ours, who have outsinned t...
Our fathers have sinned, and are not Death hath secured our fathers from these evils, though they had sinned; but the punishment they escaped, we suffer in the most grievous degree: see note on Je...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
We must not understand this in the same sense as Ezekiel 18:2 , where God reflecteth upon them for using a proverb to this sense. It is the prophet who here speaketh, and in the name of the godly...
Our fathers sinned, and are not, And we have borne their iniquities. The prophet acknowledged that their fathers had sinned and were no longer alive. They had suffered the penalty of sin. And now t...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:6 . Judæa was on the verge of famine through the foragings of the invaders, and, under the ominous shadow of starvation, To Egypt we have given the hand, i.e...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us. An appeal for God’s compassion The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Description of the Present Misery
Exodus 20:5 ; Ezekiel 18:2 ; Genesis 42:13 ; Genesis 42:36 ; Jeremiah 16:12 ; Jeremiah 31:15 ; Jeremiah 31:29 ; Job 7:21 ; Job 7:8 ; Matthew 23:32-36 ; Zechariah 1:5
Their iniquities — The punishment of them.