See the like expression Jeremiah 31:18. Turn thou us unto thee by giving us repentance, and then our condition will be altered; or receive us into thy favour, and then it shall be well with us. Renew our days as of old; restore us to our former estate, that it may be with us as it hath formerly been. read more
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 5:19. Nevertheless, whatever be the low estate of His sanctuary and people, the living God is and reigns. Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever. Not only is His continual existence denoted, but also that Jehovah sitteth as king for ever (Psalms 29:10), the same verb being used in this clause as in the Psalm quoted, and the next clause carries on the thought, Thy throne from generation to generation. Enemies may destroy the temple made with hands; they are powerless... read more
Chapter 5Fifth lamentation:Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money ( Lamentations 5:1-4 );We had to pay for a drink of water.and our wood is sold to us. Our necks are under persecution: we labor, we have no rest. We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our... read more
REFLECTIONS. Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85:0. Hosea 3:0. The insults to women and to virgins are named among the first of the final calamities; and the general who allows of this must expect mutiny and revolt from the men who violate laws with impunity. The cruelty to the elders nailed up by their hands, was inflicted also upon Tyre, where eight thousand... read more
Lamentations 5:19-22Thou, O Lord, remainest forever; Thy throne from generation to generation.The everlasting throneThus at last our attention is turned from earth to heaven, from man to God. In this change of vision the mood which gave rise to the Lamentations disappears. Since earthly things lose their value in view of the treasures in heaven, the ruin of them also becomes of less account. For the moment the poet forgets himself and his surroundings in a rapt contemplation of God. This is the... read more
Lam 5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Ver. 21. Turn thou us unto thee. ] That thou mayest turn thee to us. as Zec 1:3 Let there be a thorough reformation wrought in us, and then a gracious restoration wrought for us. read more
Turn: 1 Kings 18:37, Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 80:19, Psalms 85:4, Jeremiah 31:18, Jeremiah 32:39, Jeremiah 32:40, Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 11:20, Ezekiel 36:25-Daniel :, Ezekiel 36:37, Habakkuk 3:2 renew: Jeremiah 31:4, Jeremiah 31:23-Lamentations :, Jeremiah 33:10, Jeremiah 33:13, Zechariah 8:3-Joshua :, Malachi 3:4 Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 30:6 - turn again Daniel 9:13 - that we Amos 9:11 - as in Micah 7:14 - as Acts 3:19 - be read more
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.Renew — Restore us to our former estate. read more
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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:1-22
Lamentations 5. A Prayer.— This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, “ we.” It may be called a hexameter poem, having six and not five beats in each of its twenty-two lines; it keeps, however, to this alphabetical number of lines, although it is not an alphabetic acrostic. Possibly, the composer intended to think out later other initial words for his lines, and thus to make... read more