Lamentations 5:21
Turn us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
In Context
20Therefore will you utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
22For you have indeed rejected us; you have been very angry against us.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:37Hear me, O Lord, hear me, and let this people know that you are the Lord God, and you have turned back the heart of this people.
Psalms 80:7You did call upon me in trouble, and I delivered you; I heard you in the secret place of the storm: I proved you at the water of + 80:7 Lit. contradiction. Strife. Pause. 1
Psalms 85:4Rejoice the soul of your servant: for to you, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul. 1
Jeremiah 31:4Moab is ruined, proclaim it to Zogora:
Jeremiah 31:23and upon Cariathaim, and upon the house of Gaemol, and upon the house of Maon,
Jeremiah 33:10And the princes of Juda heard this word, and they went up out of the house of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the new gate.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:18-22
Unchangeableness of God; Prayer for Mercy and Grace. ( b. c. 588.) 17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. 19 Thou, O Lord , remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord , and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against… Read the whole commentary →