Lamentations 5:7
King James Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:7 in context
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Grief that still hopes — mourning a ruined city, and mercy new every morning.
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