Lamentaciones 5:7

7 Nuestros padres pecaron, ya no existen, y nosotros cargamos con sus iniquidades.

Lamentaciones 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.

Lamentaciones 5:7 In-Context

5 Sobre nuestros cuellos están nuestros perseguidores; no hay descanso para nosotros, estamos agotados.

6 A Egipto y a Asiria nos hemos sometido para saciarnos de pan.

7 Nuestros padres pecaron, ya no existen, y nosotros cargamos con sus iniquidades.

8 Esclavos dominan sobre nosotros, no hay quien nos libre de su mano.

9 Con peligro de nuestras vidas conseguimos nuestro pan, enfrentándonos a la espada del desierto.