Lamentations 5:5-15

5 Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is ¹no rest for us.

6 We have submitted * to ²Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

7 Our ³fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.

8 ⁴Slaves rule over us; There is ⁵no one to deliver us from their hand.

9 We get our bread at the ⁶risk of our lives Because * of the sword in the wilderness.

10 Our skin has become as ⁷hot as an oven, Because * of the burning heat of famine.

11 They ravished the ⁸women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes were hung by their hands; ⁹Elders were not respected.

13 Young men ¹⁰worked at the grinding mill, And youths ¹¹stumbled under loads of wood.

14 Elders are gone from the gate, Young men from their ¹²music.

15 The joy of our hearts has ¹³ceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

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Lamentations 5:5-15 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 13

1. Nehemiah 9:36, 37
2. Hosea 9:3; Hosea 12:1
3. Jeremiah 14:20; Jeremiah 16:12
4. Nehemiah 5:15
5. Psalms 7:2; Zechariah 11:6
6. Jeremiah 40:9-12
7. Job 30:30; Lamentations 4:8
8. Isaiah 13:16; Zechariah 14:2
9. Isaiah 47:6; Lamentations 4:16
10. Judges 16:21
11. Jeremiah 7:18
12. Isaiah 24:8; Jeremiah 7:34
13. Jeremiah 25:10; Amos 8:10

Footnotes 9

[a]. Lit "We have been pursued upon"
[b]. Lit "given the hand to"
[c]. Lit "to be satisfied with"
[d]. Lit "with our soul"
[e]. Or "In the face of"
[f]. Or "the ravages of hunger"
[g]. Lit "The faces of elders"
[h]. Lit "carry"
[i]. Lit "have ceased"

Lamentations 5:5-15

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Lamentations 5:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 5

Cross References 13

Footnotes 9