Lamentations 5:21 on Holy Bible Reading

Lamentations Chapter 5

THE WRITINGS

LAMENTATIONS

EICHA

Faith, repentance, and redemption.

Chapter 5

Lamentations Makes Mention Of The Negative Effects It Has Brought The People Of Jerusalem

Not failing to acknowledge G-d and His throne keeps hope alive.

As chapter 3 states it, that G-d does not reject forever.

Never stop crying out to Him especially when things appear not to improve to your favor.

“There Is Hope”

Leaders were hanged by their hand, elders were shown no respect.
:12
Gone is the joy of our hearts, our dancing has turned into mourning.
:15
The crown of our head has fallen; woe to us, for we have sinned.
:16
Yet You, Hashem, are enthroned forever, Your throne is ageless.
:19
Why do You ignore us eternally, forsake us for so long?
:20
Bring us back to You, Hashem, and we shall return, renew our days of old.
:21

1 Recall, O Lord, what has befallen us; behold and see our disgrace.
2 Our heritage has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are like widows.
4 Our water we have drunk for payment; our wood needs must come by purchase.
5 We are pursued [with a yoke] on our necks; we toil but it does not remain with us.
6 We have stretched out our hands to Egypt [and to] Assyria to get enough food.
7 Our fathers have sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Slaves rule over us, [and] there is none to deliver [us] from their hand.
9 With our lives we bring our bread, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is parched as by a furnace because of the heat of hunger.
11 They have outraged women in Zion [and] maidens in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged by their hands, elders were not shown respect.
13 Young men carried the millstones, [and] youths stumbled under [loads of] wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the [city] gate, the young men from their music.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased, our dancing has turned into mourning.
16 The crown of our head has fallen, woe to us, for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart has become faint, for these things our eyes have grown dim.
18 For Mount Zion, which has become desolate; foxes prowl over it.
19 [But] You, O Lord, remain forever; Your throne endures throughout the generations.
20 Why do You forget us forever, forsake us so long?
21 Restore us to You, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old.
22 For if You have utterly rejected us, You have [already] been exceedingly wroth against us.

The destruction of the first Temple and the exile of the Jewish people

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