Lamentations 5:1-7

Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord

1 ¹Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see ²our disgrace!

2 ³Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

3 We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

4 We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.

5 ⁴Our pursuers are at our necks;^[a] we are weary; we are given no rest.

6 We have given the hand to ⁵Egypt, and to ⁶Assyria, to get bread enough.

7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; ⁷and we bear their iniquities.

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Lamentations 5:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 5

In this chapter are reckoned up the various calamities and distresses of the Jews in Babylon, which the Lord is desired to remember and consider, La 5:1-16; their great concern for the desolation of the temple in particular is expressed, La 5:17,18; and the chapter is concluded with a prayer that God would show favour to them, and turn them to him, and renew their prosperity as of old, though he had rejected them, and been wroth with them, La 5:19-22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 7

1. Psalms 89:50
2. Lamentations 3:61
3. Psalms 79:1
4. [Joshua 10:24]
5. [Hosea 12:1]
6. [Hosea 12:1]
7. Jeremiah 31:29; Ezekiel 18:2

Footnotes 1

[a]. Symmachus With a yoke on our necks

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