7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment. 8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands. 9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:7–9
Semantically similar passages
Lamentations 5:2–4
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. 3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows. 4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
Nehemiah 9:36–38
36 So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness— here we are as slaves! 37 Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they ple…
Greek Esther 4:33–35
33 I have heard from my birth in the tribe of my kindred that you, Lord, took Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers out of all their kindred for a perpetual inheritance, and have done for them all that you have said. (WEB) 34 And now we have sinned before you, an… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 7:31–33
31 But you, who have devised all kinds of evil against the Hebrews, will in no way escape God’s hands. (WEB) 32 For we are suffering because of our own sins. (WEB) 33 If for rebuke and chastening, our living Lord has been angered a little while, yet he will again be reconciled with… (WEB)
1 Esdras 8:75–77
75 for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven (WEB) 76 ever since the time of our fathers. We are in great sin, even to this day. (WEB) 77 For our sins and our fathers’ sins we with our kindred, our kings, and our priests were given up to… (WEB)
Judith 8:18–20
18 For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days; (WEB) 19 for which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for plunder, and fell with a gr… (WEB)
Jeremiah 3:23–25
23 Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God. 24 From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters. 25 Le…
2 Chronicles 29:8–10
8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes. 9 For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and…
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources