Lamentations 5
Lutheran reading notes
In Lamentations chapter 5, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of lament over Jerusalem’s destruction and hope in God's mercy. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Lamentations 5:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows.
Lamentations 5:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. {is...: Heb. cometh for price}
Lamentations 5:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
5
Our necks {are} under persecution: we labour, {and} have no rest. {Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted}
Lamentations 5:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
6
We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
7
Our fathers have sinned, {and are} not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
8
Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
9
We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}
Lamentations 5:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
11
They ravished the women in Zion, {and} the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Lamentations 5:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Lamentations 5:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Lamentations 5:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
16
The crown is fallen {from} our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! {The...: Heb. The crown of our head is fallen}
Lamentations 5:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
17
For this our heart is faint; for these {things} our eyes are dim.
Lamentations 5:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Lamentations 5:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
19
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, {and} forsake us so long time? {so...: Heb. for length of days?}
Lamentations 5:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
21
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
22
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. {But...: or, For wilt thou utterly reject us?}
Lamentations 5:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.