Lamentations 5:7
Modern Translations
New International Version
Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.

New Living Translation
Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!

English Standard Version
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.

Berean Study Bible
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

New American Standard Bible
Our fathers sinned, and are gone; It is we who have been burdened with the punishment for their wrongdoings.

NASB 1995
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.

NASB 1977
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.

Amplified Bible
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have carried their sin.

Christian Standard Bible
Our ancestors sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment.

Contemporary English Version
Our ancestors sinned, but they are dead, and we are left to pay for their sins.

Good News Translation
Our ancestors sinned, but now they are gone, and we are suffering for their sins.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Our ancestors sinned. Now they are gone, [but] we have to take the punishment for their wickedness.

International Standard Version
Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.

NET Bible
Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

New King James Version
Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.

King James 2000 Bible
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

New Heart English Bible
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.

World English Bible
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

American King James Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

American Standard Version
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

A Faithful Version
Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities.

Darby Bible Translation
Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

English Revised Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Webster's Bible Translation
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Our fathers (which nowe are gone) haue sinned, and we must beare their wickednesse.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Oure fathers (which now are gone) haue synned, & we must beare their wickednesse.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Our fathers have sinned—they are not, "" We have borne their iniquities.

Young's Literal Translation
Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

Smith's Literal Translation
Our fathers sinned, they are not; we bore their iniquities.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Our fathers sinned and they are not, and we carry their sins

Lamsa Bible
Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities.
















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