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 them, and do therefore justly bear the punishment of both their sins and our own too. Nobis foret iucundias semel emori, quam vitara invitara vivere.