We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.(Lamentations 5:4)

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.(Lamentations 5:5)

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.(Lamentations 5:6)

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

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.(Lamentations 5:8)

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.(Lamentations 5:9)

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.(Lamentations 5:10)

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Lamentations 5:7 - Cross Reference

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; (Exodus 20:5)

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? (Zechariah 1:5)

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. (Matthew 23:32)

And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. (Genesis 42:13)

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. (Jeremiah 31:29)

And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. (Genesis 42:36)

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: (Jeremiah 16:12)

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? (Ezekiel 18:2)

We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. (Jeremiah 14:20)

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. (Job 7:8)

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. (Job 7:21)

Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. (Jeremiah 31:15)