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Text -- Lamentations 5:1-21 (NET)
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The People of Jerusalem Pray:
5:1 O Lord , reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace .
5:2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers ; foreigners now occupy our homes .
5:3 We have become fatherless orphans ; our mothers have become widows .
5:4 We must pay money for our own water ; we must buy our own wood at a steep price .
5:5 We are pursued – they are breathing down our necks ; we are weary and have no rest .
5:6 We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
5:7 Our forefathers sinned and are dead , but we suffer their punishment .
5:8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power .
5:9 At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside .
5:10 Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger .
5:11 They raped women in Zion , virgins in the towns of Judah .
5:12 Princes were hung by their hands ; elders were mistreated .
5:13 The young men perform menial labor ; boys stagger from their labor .
5:14 The elders are gone from the city gate ; the young men have stopped playing their music .
5:15 Our hearts no longer have any joy ; our dancing is turned to mourning .
5:16 The crown has fallen from our head ; woe to us, for we have sinned !
5:17 Because of this , our hearts are sick ; because of these things , we can hardly see through our tears .
5:18 For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion , which lies desolate .
5:19 But you , O Lord , reign forever ; your throne endures from generation to generation .
5:20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long ?
5:21 Bring us back to yourself, O Lord , so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before ,
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Nation |
Doubting |
Patriotism |
Poetry |
War |
Church |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Famine |
Captive |
Orphan |
AGE; OLD AGE |
INTERCESSION |
Servant |
Wicked |
CAPTIVITY |
FOX |
Parents |
FATHERLESS |
ALIEN |
Money |
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NET Notes -> Lam 5:1; Lam 5:1; Lam 5:1; Lam 5:1; Lam 5:2; Lam 5:2; Lam 5:4; Lam 5:4; Lam 5:4; Lam 5:5; Lam 5:5; Lam 5:6; Lam 5:6; Lam 5:7; Lam 5:7; Lam 5:7; Lam 5:7; Lam 5:7; Lam 5:8; Lam 5:8; Lam 5:9; Lam 5:9; Lam 5:9; Lam 5:9; Lam 5:9; Lam 5:10; Lam 5:11; Lam 5:12; Lam 5:13; Lam 5:13; Lam 5:15; Lam 5:17; Lam 5:17; Lam 5:17; Lam 5:18; Lam 5:20; Lam 5:20; Lam 5:21; Lam 5:21; Lam 5:21; Lam 5:21
NET Notes: Lam 5:1 Although normally used in reference to visual sight, רָאָה (ra’ah) is often used in reference to cognitive process...
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NET Notes: Lam 5:5 For the theological allusion that goes beyond physical rest, see, e.g., Deut 12:10; 25:19; Josh 1:13; 11:23; 2 Sam 7:1, 11; 1 Chron 22:18; 2 Chron 14:...
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NET Notes: Lam 5:6 Heb “bread.” The term “bread” is a synecdoche of specific (= bread) for the general (= food).
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NET Notes: Lam 5:7 Heb “their iniquities.” The noun עָוֹן (’avon) has a broad range of meanings, including: (1) iniquity,...
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NET Notes: Lam 5:12 Heb “elders were shown no respect.” The phrase “shown no respect” is an example of tapeinosis, a figurative expression of unde...
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NET Notes: Lam 5:13 Heb “boys trip over wood.” This phrase makes little sense. The translation adopts D. R. Hillers’ suggestion (Lamentations [AB], 99) ...
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NET Notes: Lam 5:17 The phrase “through our tears” is added in the translation for the sake of clarification.
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NET Notes: Lam 5:18 Heb “jackals.” The term “jackals” is a synecdoche of species (= jackals) for general (= wild animals).
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NET Notes: Lam 5:20 The verbs “to forget” and “to remember” are often used figuratively in scripture when God is the subject, particularly in cont...
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