Lamentaciones 5:7

7 Nuestros antepasados pecaron, pero murieron,
¡y nosotros sufrimos el castigo que ellos merecían!

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 Los que nos persiguen nos pisan los talones;
estamos agotados pero no encontramos descanso.

6 Nos sometimos a Egipto y a Asiria
para conseguir alimentos y así sobrevivir.

7 Nuestros antepasados pecaron, pero murieron,
¡y nosotros sufrimos el castigo que ellos merecían!

8 Los esclavos son ahora nuestros amos;
no ha quedado nadie para rescatarnos.

9 Buscamos comida a riesgo de nuestra vida
porque la violencia domina el campo.