Lamentaciones 5:21

21 Permítenos volver a ti, SEÑOR, y volveremos;devuélvenos la gloria de antaño.^[a]

Lamentaciones 5:21 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:21

Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned
This prayer expresses the sense they had of their backslidings from God, and distance from him; of their inability to turn themselves to the Lord, or convert themselves; and of their need of divine grace, and of the efficacy of that to effect it; see ( Jeremiah 31:18 ) ; for this is to be understood not only of returning them to their own land, and to the external worship of God in it; but of turning them to the Lord by true and perfect repentance, as the Targum; of the conversion of their hearts and the reformation of their lives:

renew our days as of old;
for good, as the Targum adds. The request is, that their good days might be renewed; that they might enjoy the same peace and prosperity, and all good things in their own land, as they had done in days and years past: first they pray for repentance; then restoration.

Lamentaciones 5:21 In-Context

19 Pero tú, SEÑOR, reinas por siempre;tu trono permanece eternamente.

20 ¿Por qué siempre nos olvidas?¿Por qué nos abandonas tanto tiempo?

21 Permítenos volver a ti, SEÑOR, y volveremos;devuélvenos la gloria de antaño.

22 La verdad es que nos has rechazadoy te has excedido en tu enojo contra nosotros.

Footnotes

• [a] "devuélvenos " "… " "antaño" . Lit. "renueva nuestros días como antes" .