Lamentations 5:7

“Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not, etc.] 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 the miseries and calamities their children were attended with, and therefore more happy: and we have borne their iniquities; the punishment of them, or chastisement for them: this is not said by way of complaint, much less as charging God with injustice, in punishing them for their fathers’ sins, or to excuse theirs; for they were ready to own that they had consented to them, and were guilty of the same; but to obtain mercy and pity at the hands of God.”

“(Jer 31:29). borne their iniquities--that is, the punishment of them. The accumulated sins of our fathers from age to age, as well as our own, are visited on us. They say this as a plea why God should pity them (compare Eze 18:2, &c.).”

“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. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Their iniquities - The punishment of them. Lamentations 5:9”

“fathers: Exo 20:5; Jer 16:12, Jer 31:29; Eze 18:2; Mat 23:32-36 and are: Gen 42:13, Gen 42:36; Job 7:8, Job 7:21; Jer 31:15; Zac 1:5 Lamentations 5:8”