Lamentations 5:7

7 Nos pères ont péché, ils ne sont plus, Et c'est nous qui portons la peine de leurs iniquités.

Lamentations 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.

Lamentations 5:7 In-Context

5 Nous sommes poursuivis, le joug sur le cou; Nous sommes épuisés, nous n'avons point de repos.

6 Nous avons tendu la main vers l'Egypte, vers l'Assyrie, Pour nous rassasier de pain.

7 Nos pères ont péché, ils ne sont plus, Et c'est nous qui portons la peine de leurs iniquités.

8 Des esclaves dominent sur nous, Et personne ne nous délivre de leurs mains.

9 Nous cherchons notre pain au péril de notre vie, Devant l'épée du désert.