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What does Lamentations 5:7 mean?

"Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities."

— Lamentations 5:7 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

4

We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.

5

Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

6

We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7

Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

8

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

9

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

10

Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

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