CHAPTER V.
Thou hast. We might read with an interrogation, (Haydock) in Hebrew, "Hast thou?" &c. The Jews superstitiously repeat the last verse, for fear of ending the book in an ominous manner, as they do at the end of Isaias and Malachias. (Calmet) --- Having treated us so severely, stop thy hand. (Worthington) --- But I perceive it will be in vain to beg for redress till the seventy years be expired. (Menochius)
Verse Lamentations 5:22. _BUT THOU HAST UTTERLY REJECTED US_] It appears as if thou hadst sealed our final reprobation, because thou showest against us _exceeding great wrath_. But _convert us, O Lor...
Literally, “Unless thou hast utterly rejected us,” unless “thou art very wroth against us.” This is stated as a virtual impossibility. God’s anger can be but temporary Psalms 30:5, and therefore the v...
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...
ART. hast been. IN THE public reading of the Hebrew text Lamentations 5:21 is repeated after Lamentations 5:22, so that the book may end with comfort. The same is the case with Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, a...
_But, etc_.] better as mg., _Unless thou_… and _art, etc_. The whole sentence is an hypothesis not to be accepted as fact. God's anger cannot last for ever, and thus there is yet hope. Although the B...
See intr. note to ch....
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...
BUT THOU HAST UTTERLY REJECTED US - rather, 'Unless haply thou hast utterly rejected us, and art beyond measure wroth against us' - i:e., Unless thou art implacable, which is impossible, hear our pra...
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...
BUT] RV 'unless,' which is better; for that Jehovah has utterly rejected Zion is to the poet unthinkable. The tone of the v., however, is so melancholy that in some MSS Lamentations 5:21 is repeated;...
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....
BUT THOU HAST... — The Authorised version represents the mourner as falling back from the hopeful prayer into the depths of despair. For “but” we should, however, read _unless._ The hypothesis of utte...
כִּ֚י אִם ־מָאֹ֣ס מְאַסְתָּ֔נוּ קָצַ֥פְתָּ עָלֵ֖ינוּ...
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...
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 two words כי אם, _ki am, _are differently explained: some render them, “but if,” or “certainly if,” and thus separate the verse into two parts, “Surely if thou hast rejected us, thou art very angr...
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...
BUT THOU HAST UTTERLY REJECTED US,.... That looks as if they had no hope, and were in despair of having their petitions granted; since God had entirely rejected them from being his people, and would n...
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. Ver. 22. _But thou hast utterly rejected us._] This is a sad catastrophe, or close of this doleful ditty, _a_ Sometimes God's suppli...
_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...
But, or "Unless," THOU HAST UTTERLY REJECTED US; THOU ART VERY WROTH AGAINST US. It is hardly plausible that God's anger is so excessively great as to cause Him to shut out His repentant children fore...
Plea for the Renewal of Jehovah's Love...
BUT THOU HAST UTTERLY REJECTED US: Or, for wilt thou utterly reject us?...
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...
OLBHeb; Our translators have here so rendered the particle yk that the words seem to express some diffidence in the prophet of God's mercy in restoring the people to their former state, some expressio...
Lamentations 5:22 utterly H3988 (H8800) rejected H3988 (H8804) very H3966 angry H7107 (H8804) But thou hast utterly rejected us
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
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...
Ezekiel 37:11; Hosea 1:6; Jeremiah 15:1; Psalms 44:9; Psalms 60:1;...