Ekhah 5:7

7 Avoteinu have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.

Ekhah 5:7 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:7

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 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.

Ekhah 5:7 In-Context

5 Our necks are under persecution; we are weary, and have no rest.

6 We have submitted to the Mitzrayim, and to the Assyrians, to get enough lechem.

7 Avoteinu have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Avadim have ruled over us; there is none that doth deliver us out of their yad.

9 We get our lechem with the peril of our lives because of the cherev of the midbar.