“ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? ”
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 m...
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He seems, indeed, here to expostulate with God; but the faithful, even when they patiently bear their evils, and submit to God’s scourges, do yet familiarly deposit their complaints in his boso...
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? Wherefore dost thou forget us forever - i:e., for 'so long a time.'
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
Wherefore dost thou forget... — This was the problem of the mystery of suffering then, as it has been at all times. Jehovah had seemed forgetful of His people, indifferent to their miseries.
THE EVERLASTING THRONE Lamentations 5:19-22 WE have lingered long in the valley of humiliation. At the eleventh hour we are directed to look up from this scene of weary gloom to heavenly height...
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...
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;...
Wherefore dost thou, forget us for ever ,.... Since thou art firm, constant, and unchangeable, and thy love and covenant the same. God seems to forget his people when he afflicts them, or suffers th...
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time? Ver. 20. Wherefore dost thou forget us? ] Since thy covenant runs otherwise. 2Sa 7:14 Lam 5:1 And forsakest us so long tim...
Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever Though, for our sins, thou hast suffered these calamities to befall us, and our throne, through thy righteous providence, is thrown down; yet thou art still the sam...
Unchangeableness of God; Prayer for Mercy and Grace. B. C. 588. 17 For this our heart...
Wherefore dost thou, in the dispensations of thy providence, carry thyself as if thou hadst forgotten us, and forsaken us, and that for a long time.
Why do you forget us for ever, And forsake us for so long a time? The incongruity of the situations in which God's people found themselves as described in this chapter, as compared with YHWH's eter...
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 co...
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 ; Hosea 3 . T...
Thou, O Lord, remainest forever; Thy throne from generation to generation. The everlasting throne Thus at last our attention is turned from earth to heaven, from man to God. In this change of v...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Plea for the Renewal of Jehovah's Love
Isaiah 64:9-12 ; Jeremiah 14:19-21 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 44:24 ; Psalms 74:1 ; Psalms 77:7-10 ; Psalms 79:5 ; Psalms 85:5 ; Psalms 89:46 ; Psalms 94:3 ; Psalms 94:4