Lamentazioni 5:7

7 I nostri padri hanno peccato, e non sono più; e noi portiamo la pena delle loro iniquità.

Lamentazioni 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.

Lamentazioni 5:7 In-Context

5 Col collo carico noi siamo inseguiti, siamo spossati, non abbiamo requie.

6 Abbiam teso la mano verso l’Egitto e verso l’Assiria, per saziarci di pane.

7 I nostri padri hanno peccato, e non sono più; e noi portiamo la pena delle loro iniquità.

8 Degli schiavi dominano su noi, e non v’è chi ci liberi dalle loro mani.

9 Noi raccogliamo il nostro pane col rischio della nostra vita, affrontando la spada del deserto.