Lamentations 5:21

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Turn	הֲשִׁיבֵ֨נוּ ha.shi.Ve.nu	H7725	to turn back (hence · verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
LORD	יְהוָ֤ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
turned	וְֽנָשׁ֔וּבָה ve.na.shuv	H7725	to turn back (hence · conjunction + verb, qal infinitive construct, 1st person common plural
renew	חַדֵּ֥שׁ cha.Desh	H2318	to be new · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
days	יָמֵ֖ינוּ ya.Mei.nu	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
old	כְּקֶֽדֶם ke.Ke.dem	H6924	the front · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalms 80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalms 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
Psalms 80:19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn…
Zechariah 8:3-6 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and t…
Ezekiel 36:37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a…
Jeremiah 32:39-40 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:17–end

Here, I. The people of God express the deep concern they had for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities; the interests of God's house lay nearer their hearts than those of their own (Lam 5:17, Lam 5:18): For this our heart is faint, and sinks under the load of its own heaviness; for these things our eyes are dim, and our sight is gone, as is usual in a deliquium, or fainting fit. "It is because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the holy mountain, and the temple built upon that mountain. For other desolations our hearts grieve and our eyes weep; but for this our hearts faint and our eyes are dim." Note, Nothing lies so heavily upon the spirits of good p…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 5:21

(Psa 80:3; Jer 31:18). "Restore us to favor with Thee, and so we shall be restored to our old position" [GROTIUS]. Jeremiah is not speaking of spiritual conversion, but of that outward turning whereby God receives men into His fatherly favor, manifested in bestowing prosperity [CALVIN]. Still, as Israel is a type of the Church, temporal goods typify spiritual blessings; and so the sinner may use this prayer for God to convert him.

Adam Clarke on Lamentations 5:21

Renew our days as of old - Restore us to our former state. Let us regain our country, our temple, and all the Divine offices of our religion; but, more especially, thy favor.

John Gill on Lamentations 5:21

Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned,.... This prayer expresses the sense they had of their backslidings from God, and distance from him; of their inability to turn themselves to the Lord, or convert themselves; and of their need of divine grace, and of the efficacy of that to effect it; see Jeremiah 31:18; for this is to be understood not only of returning them to their own land, and to the external worship of God in it; but of turning them to the Lord by true and perfect repentance, as the Targum; of the conversion of their hearts and the reformation of their lives: renew our days as of old; for good, as the Targum adds. The request is, that their good days might be rene…

Dictionary and topics

Backsliding · Pray to be restored from — Pray to be restored from
Conversion · Pray for — Pray for

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Lamentations 5:21

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:17–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 5:21

Adam Clarke on Lamentations 5:21

John Gill on Lamentations 5:21

Dictionary and topics

Lamentations 5:21

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:17–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 5:21

Adam Clarke on Lamentations 5:21

John Gill on Lamentations 5:21

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Lamentations 5:21

Keil & Delitzsch on Lamentations 5:21–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Lamentations 5:18

Rashi on Lamentations 5:20