7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Isa. any afflicted? let him pray ; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease. They complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt: “ Remember what has come upon us , Lam. 5:1. What was of…
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