For, see, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
our fathers
2 Chronicles 28:5-8,17 Why the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him...
Leviticus 26:17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you...
Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.