Lamentations 5:15-22

15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

16 The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.

17 Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears.

18 For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals.

19 But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation.

20 Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long?

21 Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had!

22 Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still?

Lamentations 5:15-22 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.

Footnotes

• [a] Or The crown has.
• [b] Hebrew Mount Zion.