Lamentations 5:17-22

17 Because of all this we're heartsick; we can't see through the tears.

18 On Mount Zion, wrecked and ruined, jackals pace and prowl.

19 And yet, God, you're sovereign still, your throne intact and eternal.

20 So why do you keep forgetting us? Why dump us and leave us like this?

21 Bring us back to you, God - we're ready to come back. Give us a fresh start.

22 As it is, you've cruelly disowned us. You've been so very angry with us."

Lamentations 5:17-22 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.