Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
All Commentaries on Lamentations 5:7 Go To Lamentations 5
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Iniquities. This was the usual complaint of the Jews, (chap. xxxi. 29.) as if they had committed no offence themselves. If any virtuous people were involved in the common ruin, they bore it with resignation, and acknowledged that they had deserved it, 1 Esdras ix. 6., and 2 Esdras i. 6., and Esther xiv. 6., and Daniel iii. 29.