lamentations-5:21

Geneva Study Bible - Lamentations 5:21

5:21 {l} Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.(l) By which is declared that it is not in man’s power to turn to God, but is only his work to convert us, and thus God works in us before we can turn to him, Jeremiah 31:18 . read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Lamentations 5:1-22

The touching significance of this book lies in the fact that it is the disclosure of the love and sorrow of Jehovah for the very people He is chastening a sorrow wrought by the Spirit in the heart of Jeremiah. Compare Jeremiah 13:7 ; Matthew 23:36-38 ; and Romans 9:1-5 . Scofield Reference Bible As regards its external structure, the composition of the book, both as a whole and in its several parts, is so artistic, that anything like it can hardly be found in any other book of Holy Scriptures.... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Lamentations 5:1-22

Sin's Garden Lamentations 5:0 If we would work our way up to this text, it will be through a very dreary course of reflection. Probably there is nothing like this chapter in all the elegies of the world. For what is there here more than elegy? There is a death deeper than death. The blank verse is noble, but the moral sentiment is horrible. Let us not deceive ourselves by blank verse. We do not know anything finer than these lines, or many of them, regarded simply as poetry; but when we look... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Lamentations 5:19-22

Thou, O LORD, remainest forever; thy throne from generation to generation. Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time? Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. How blessedly the Prophet here takes hold of the eternity, and unchangeable nature and purposes of God's faithfulness and mercy in Christ. And how earnestly on these grounds doth he plead for grace, being... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Lamentations 5:21

Convert. Thy grace must work upon our hearts, (Calmet) before we can expect redress, (Haydock) and an end of our banishment. (Tirinus) (Grotius) --- Beginning, when our fathers observed the law. (St. Thomas Aquinas) (Menochius) See chap. xxxi. 18.; St. Augustine, City of God ii., and iv. (Worthington) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:17-22

17-22 The people of God express deep concern for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities. But whatever changes there are on earth, God is still the same, and remains for ever wise and holy, just and good; with Him there is no variableness nor shadow of turning. They earnestly pray to God for mercy and grace; Turn us to thee, O Lord. God never leaves any till they first leave him; if he turns them to him in a way of duty, no doubt he will quickly return to them in a... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Lamentations 5:17-22

Plea for the Renewal of Jehovah's Love v. 17. For this, on account of the great afflictions, well deserved as they were, our heart is faint, with the bitterness of the soul's pain; for these things are our eyes dim, the sorrow of the heart finding its expression in tears. v. 18. Because of the mountain of Zion, where the Temple had formerly stood, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it, jackals making their dens in its ruins. In the midst of all this sorrow, however, the hearts of the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Lamentations 5:1-22

Lamentations 5:0Distress And Hope Of The Prisoners And Fugitives: [expressed In The Form Of A Prayer Or, E. V., A Pitiful Complaint Of Zion In Prayer Unto God.—W. H. H.]Lamentations 5:1. Remember, Jehovah, what has come upon us!Look down and see our reproach.Lamentations 5:2. Our inheritance has fallen to strangers,Our houses to aliens.Lamentations 5:3. We have become orphans, without father,Our mothers—as widows.Lamentations 5:4. Our water we have drunk for money,Our wood comes for a... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 5:1-22

The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction of all classes of the people-the women, the maidens, the princes, the elders, the young men, the children, and of the consequently prevalent sorrow, recognizing that all this was the result of sin. Then, in a last brief and yet forceful word, he prayed Jehovah to turn the people unto Himself. This... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:21-22

Turn you us unto you, O YHWH, and we will be turned, Renew our days as of old. Unless (ki ’im) you have utterly rejected us, You are very angry against us. But he also realises that they cannot expect YHWH to act if they remain unchanged. There had to be a true turning to God. But he recognises that it will not come just from the people themselves. So he calls on YHWH to right the situation. Let Him turn His people towards Himself, and then they will be turned. He recognises that man’s sinful... read more