Lamentations 5:20-21

20 Why have you forgotten us completely? Why have you forsaken us these many days?
21 Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored; renew our days as of old—

Lamentations 5:20-21 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.

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