Convert. Thy grace must work upon our hearts, (Calmet) before we can expect redress, (Haydock) and an end of our banishment. (Tirinus) (Grotius) --- Beginning, when our fathers observed the law. (St. Thomas Aquinas) (Menochius) See chap. xxxi. 18.; St. Augustine, City of God ii., and iv. (Worthington)
Verse Lamentations 5:21. _RENEW OUR DAYS AS OF OLD._] Restore us to our former state. Let us regain our country, our temple, and all the Divine offices of our religion; but, more especially, thy favou...
CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of confession and of hope, which reaches t...
LAMENTATIONS 5. A PRAYER. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It may...
TURN THOU US. National repentance was the one abiding condition of national blessing, and this must be Jehovah's own work. UNTO THEE. unto Thyself....
See intr. note to ch....
_Turn thou us_ suggestive of Jeremiah 31:18, but see note there. Here the sense is not, bring back the exiles, but give us a repentant heart. Cp. Psalms 80:3 ff....
RENEW OUR DAYS, &C.— _Renew our days as of old;_ Lamentations 5:22. _After thou hast rejected us and hast been very wroth against us._ Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The prophet, in the name of his affl...
II. THE RESTORATION OF ZION REQUESTED Lamentations 5:19-22 TRANSLATION (19) You, O LORD, are enthroned forever! Your throne is from generation to generation. (20) Why have You forgotten us forever, f...
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. TURN THOU US UNTO THEE, O LORD, AND WE SHALL BE TURNED - (; ). 'Restore us to favour with thee, and so we shall be re...
TURN THOU US UNTO THEE] The poet realises that they cannot turn themselves. The doctrine clearly is that repentance is of grace. It is useless simply to resolve to turn (Jeremiah 31:18)....
ZION'S EARNEST PETITION FOR DELIVERANCE This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The poe...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 5 JEREMIAH IS PRAYING. V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and see our shame....
TURN THOU US... O LORD... — The answer to the problem was found in man’s submission and in prayer. He could not turn himself, and so re-establish the old filial relation. He could ask God to turn him,...
הֲשִׁיבֵ֨נוּ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ אֵלֶ֨יךָ֙ _וְֽ_†_נָשׁ֔וּבָה_† חַדֵּ֥שׁ יָמֵ֖ינוּ
THE EVERLASTING THRONE Lamentations 5:19 WE have lingered long in the valley of humiliation. At the eleventh hour we are directed to look up from this scene of weary gloom to heavenly heights, radian...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction o...
(l) Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. (l) By which is declared that it is not in man's power to turn to God, but is only his work to convert us, and thus...
Thou, O LORD, remainest forever; thy throne from generation to generation. Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time? Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; r...
The Prophet shews, in this verse, that the remedy is in God’s hand whenever he is pleased to succor his people. He, then, exalts here the power of God, as though he had said, that God is not without p...
The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God, as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...
TURN THOU US UNTO THEE, O LORD, AND WE SHALL BE TURNED,.... This prayer expresses the sense they had of their backslidings from God, and distance from him; of their inability to turn themselves to the...
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Ver. 21. _Turn thou us unto thee._] That thou mayest turn thee to us. _as _ Zec 1:3 Let there be a thorough reformati...
_Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever_ Though, for our sins, thou hast suffered these calamities to befall us, and our throne, through thy righteous providence, is thrown down; yet thou art still the same...
Turn Thou us unto Thee, O Lord, by a true conversion, which is the work of the Lord alone, AND WE SHALL BE TURNED; RENEW OUR DAYS AS OF OLD, restoring them to their position as His children, as His Ch...
Plea for the Renewal of Jehovah's Love...
17-22 The people of God express deep concern for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities. But whatever changes there are on earth, God is still the same, and remains for...
See the like expression JEREMIAH 31:18. Turn thou us unto thee by giving us repentance, and then our condition will be altered; or receive us into thy favour, and then it shall be well with us. _Renew...
Lamentations 5:21 Turn H7725 (H8685) LORD H3068 restored H7725 (H8799) Renew H2318 (H8761) days H3117 old
Turn you us unto you, O YHWH, and we will be turned, Renew our days as of old. Unless (ki 'im) you have utterly rejected us, You are very angry against us. But he also realises that they cannot exp...
CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity. Supplications for the return of mercy. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God is th...
REFLECTIONS. Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85; Hosea 3. The insu...
_Thou, O Lord, remainest forever; Thy throne from generation to generation._ THE EVERLASTING THRONE Thus at last our attention is turned from earth to heaven, from man to God. In this change of visio...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for restoration. It includes an opening petition (v....
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:19 The book closes with a plea for renewal. The people confess God’s eternal nature and kingship (v. Lamentations 5:19), regret their ongoing su
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:21 RESTORE US. Restoration depends on a right relationship with God (Jeremiah 31:18), and only God can do the restoring.
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:19. Nevertheless, whatever be the low estate of His sanctuary and people, the living God is and reigns. THOU, O JEHOVAH, ABIDEST FOR EVER. Not only is His continual e...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
Fifth lamentation: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...
1 Kings 18:37; Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 11:20; Ezekiel 36:25;...
Renew — Restore us to our former estate....