Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 5:7

7 Our fathers have sinned and are not, and we have born their iniquities .

We must not understand this in the same sense as Ezek. 18.2. where God reflecteth upon them for using a Proverb to this sense. It is the Prophet who here speaketh, and in the name of the Godly Iews who would not excuse themselves, as if they suffered meerly for their forefathers sins. But the Prophet confes[illegible: 1 letter]eth and bewaileth that God had punished their iniquities and the iniquities of their forefathers together, and it was better with their forefathers who had sinned, and were dead and gone, than with them upon whom the punishment of their iniquity did abide, and was like so to do a long time.

Marginal references: Jer. 31.29.