Lamentations 5 - Meaning, Themes & Application

" Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. "

" Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. "

" We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. "

" We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold "

" Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. "

" We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. "

" Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. "

" Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. "

" We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. "

" Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. "

" They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. "

" Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. "

" They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. "

" The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. "

" The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. "

Lamentations 5:15 means the people’s happiness has completely disappeared and their celebrations have turned into deep sorrow because of their sin and suffering. It reflects …

" The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! "

" For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. "

" Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk "

" Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. "

" Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? "

" Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. "

" But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth "