Lamentations 5:21
Please enable us to return to you, and enable us to prosper [MTY] as we did previously.
Translation for Translators
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
20So why [RHQ] have you forgotten us? Why [RHQ] have you abandoned us for a very long time?
Cross References
1 Kings 18:37Yahweh, answer me! Answer me in order that these people will know that you, Yahweh God, have the power to do what you say that you will do, and that you have caused them to trust in [IDM] you again!”
Psalms 80:7God, commander of the armies of heaven, cause our nation to be strong like it was before! Be kind to us in order that we may be saved!
Psalms 85:4Now, God, the one who saves/rescues us, ◄restore us/make us prosperous again► and stop being angry with us!
Jeremiah 31:4And now I tell you, my Israeli people whom I love [MET], that I will cause you to be a nation again. You will joyfully dance as you play your tambourines.
Jeremiah 31:23This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom we Israeli people worship, says: “When I bring them back from the countries to which they have been exiled, all the people from the towns in Judah will again say, ‘I hope that Yahweh will bless this my home, the holy place where righteous people will live!’
Jeremiah 33:10And this is also what I, Yahweh, say: ‘You people have said that this is a land where there are no longer any people or animals. But in the streets of Jerusalem that are now completely empty [DOU], and in the other towns in Judah,
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 →