Ezekiel 37:11; Hosea 1:6; Jeremiah 15:1-5; Psalms 44:9; Psalms 60:1; Psalms 60:2
Literally, “Unless thou hast utterly rejected us,” unless “thou art very wroth against us.” This is stated as a virtual impossibility. God’s anger...
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 a...
art . hast been. In the public reading of the Hebrew text Lamentations 5:21 is repeated after Lamentations 5:22 , so that the book may end wit...
The two words כי אם, ki am, are differently explained: some render them, “but if,” or “certainly if,” and thus separate the verse into two...
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. But thou hast utterly rejected us - It appears as if thou hadst sealed our final r...
Renew our days, &c.— Renew our days as of old; Lamentations 5:22 . After thou hast rejected us and hast been very wroth against us. Houbig...
But thou hast utterly rejected us - rather, 'Unless haply thou hast utterly rejected us, and art beyond measure wroth against us' - i:e., Unless...
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 tha...
But] RV 'unless,' which is better; for that Jehovah has utterly rejected Zion is to the poet unthinkable. The tone of the v., however, is so melanc...
But thou hast... — The Authorised version represents the mourner as falling back from the hopeful prayer into the depths of despair. For “but” we s...
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...
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...
Thou, O LORD, remainest forever; thy throne from generation to generation. Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time? Turn t...
But thou hast utterly rejected us ,.... That looks as if they had no hope, and were in despair of having their petitions granted; since God had enti...
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. Ver. 22. But thou hast utterly rejected us. ] This is a sad catastrophe, or clo...
Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever Though, for our sins, thou hast suffered these calamities to befall us, and our throne, through thy righteous prov...
Unchangeableness of God; Prayer for Mercy and Grace. B. C. 588....
OLBHeb; Our translators have here so rendered the particle yk that the words seem to express some diffidence in the prophet of God's mercy in restor...
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 ag...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:19 . Nevertheless, whatever be the low estate of His sanctuary and people, the living God is and reigns. Thou...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
Thou, O Lord, remainest forever; Thy throne from generation to generation. The everlasting throne Thus at last our attention is turned from ear...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
Plea for the Renewal of Jehovah's Love
But, or "Unless," Thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us. It is hardly plausible that God's anger is so excessively great as...
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.