Lamentations 5:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Lamentations 5:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
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 thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
Psalms 80:19
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-22)

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, 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 fainti…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. (Psa 80:3; Jr 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 us…