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22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Lamentations 5:22

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. …

  • But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

  • Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

  • Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. …

  • And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

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 f…

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