Lamentations 5
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Chapter 5
Chapter Overview:
An humble prayer, presenting to the Lord their great misery, ver. 1 - 15.
Confessing their sins, ver. 16 - 18.
Imploring deliverance, ver. 19 - 22.
Verses:
| 5:3 | We - We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an earthly parent. |
| 5:4 | Sold - Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water throughout Judea. |
| 5:6 | We - The ten tribes were all carried captives into Assyria, and many of the kingdom of Judah fled into Egypt.Giving the hand may signify labouring for them: or, yielding up themselves to their power. |
| 5:7 | Their iniquities - The punishment of them. |
| 5:9 | The sword - The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them. |
| 5:13 | Fell - Not being able to stand under the burdens laid upon them. |
| 5:16 | The crown - All our honour, splendor and dignity. |
| 5:19 | Thy throne - Altho' for our sins thou sufferest our throne to be cast down, yet thou art the same, thy power is not diminished, nor thy goodness abated. |
| 5:21 | Renew - Restore us to our former estate. |