Adam Clarke Commentary - Lamentations 5:7

Adam Clarke Commentary - Lamentations 5:7 - 5:7

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Lamentations 5:7 - 5:7

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

5:1 - 5:1
5:2 - 5:2
5:4 - 5:4
5:5 - 5:5
5:6 - 5:6
5:7 - 5:7
5:8 - 5:8
5:9 - 5:9
5:10 - 5:10
5:11 - 5:11
5:12 - 5:12
5:13 - 5:13
5:14 - 5:14
5:16 - 5:16
5:18 - 5:18
5:19 - 5:19
5:21 - 5:21
5:22 - 5:22

Our fathers have sinned, and are not - Nations, as such, cannot be punished in the other world; therefore national judgments are to be looked for only in this life. The punishment which the Jewish nation had been meriting for a series of years came now upon them, because they copied and increased the sins of their fathers, and the cup of their iniquity was full. Thus the children might be said to bear the sins of the fathers, that is, in temporal punishment, for in no other way does God visit these upon the children. See Eze 18:1, etc.