Lamentations 5
A Prayer for Restoration
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. References Lord: Lamentations 3:61, Psalms 79:12, Jeremiah 15:15, Habakkuk 3:2. Parallel theme: Lamentations 2:15, 3:19, Nehemiah 4:4, Psalms 79:4 +3
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. Parallel theme: Isaiah 1:7, Zephaniah 1:13
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. Parallel theme: Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 15:8, 18:21, Hosea 14:3
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Parallel theme: Isaiah 3:1
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. Parallel theme: Lamentations 1:14, Deuteronomy 28:48, Jeremiah 27:8, 28:14
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. References Egypt: Jeremiah 2:18, 2:36, Hosea 7:11, 9:3, 12:1. Parallel theme: Genesis 24:2, Hosea 5:13 +2
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Sin: Exodus 20:5, Job 7:21, Jeremiah 14:20. Parallel theme: Genesis 42:36, Job 7:8, Jeremiah 16:12, 31:15, 31:29, Ezekiel 18:2, Zechariah 1:5 +5
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. Parallel theme: Nehemiah 5:15, Psalms 7:2, Proverbs 30:22, Zechariah 11:6
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. Parallel theme: Lamentations 4:8, Job 30:30, Psalms 119:83
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. Parallel theme: Deuteronomy 28:30, Isaiah 13:16, Zechariah 14:2
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. Parallel theme: Lamentations 4:16, Isaiah 47:6
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. Parallel theme: Judges 16:21
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. Parallel theme: Jeremiah 7:34, Ezekiel 26:13
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. Parallel theme: Jeremiah 25:10, Amos 8:10
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! Parallel theme: Lamentations 1:1, Job 19:9, Psalms 89:39, Jeremiah 13:18
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. Parallel theme: Lamentations 2:11, Job 17:7, Psalms 6:7, Isaiah 1:5, 38:14
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. Parallel theme: Jeremiah 9:11, Micah 3:12
19 Thou, O LORDLord: יְהוָה / אֲדֹנָי (YHWH / Adonai). When 'LORD' appears in small capitals, it represents the Tetragrammaton YHWH (יְהוָה), God's personal covenant name meaning 'I AM.' When 'Lord' appears normally, it's Adonai (אֲדֹנָי), meaning 'my Lord,' emphasizing sovereignty., remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. References Lord: Psalms 9:7, 102:12, 146:10, Habakkuk 1:12, Revelation 1:8. Parallel theme: Psalms 45:6, 90:2, 145:13, 1 Timothy 1:17, Hebrews 13:8 +5
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? Parallel theme: Psalms 13:1, 44:24
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. References Lord: Psalms 80:19, Jeremiah 31:18, 33:10, 33:13, Ezekiel 36:37, Habakkuk 3:2. Parallel theme: Psalms 80:3, 80:7, 85:4, Jeremiah 31:4 +5
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.