Lamentations 5
| Lamentations 5 | |
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Lamentations 1:1 - 1:11 on the first page of Book of Lamentations in Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-350). | |
| Book | Book of Lamentations |
| Bible part | Old Testament |
| Order in the Bible part | 25 |
| Category | Ketuvim |
Lamentations 5 is the fifth (and the last) chapter of the Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.[1][2] This chapter contains the elegies of prophet Jeremiah as a humble prayer, presenting to the Lord their great misery, Lamentations 5:1-15, confessing their sins, Lamentations 5:16-18, imploring deliverance, Lamentations 5:19-22.[3] It is a part of the Ketuvim ("Writings").[4][5]
Text
- The original text is written in Hebrew language.
- This chapter is divided into 22 verses.
- The fifth chapter (fifth elegy), though having twenty-two stanzas (the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet), just as the first four, yet is not alphabetical; and its lines are shorter than those of the others, which are longer than are found in other Hebrew poems, and contain twelve syllables, marked by a cæsura about the middle, dividing them into two somewhat unequal parts.[3]
- It serves as an epiphonema, or a closing recapitulation of the calamities treated in the previous chapters/elegies.[3]
- This chapter is called, in some Greek copies, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, "the Prayer of Jeremiah".[6]
Textual versions
Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:
- Masoretic Text (10th century)
- Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)[7][8][9]
- 5Q6 (5QLama): extant: verses 1‑13, 16‑17
Ancient translations in Koine Greek:
- Septuagint (3rd century BC)
- Theodotion version (~AD 180)
Verse 1
- Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us:
- consider, and behold our reproach.[10]
- "Remember": The last chapter opens with a call to the Lord not to overlook the pleas in the previous lamentations (Lamentations 1:9, 11, 20; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 3:59-61)[11]
Verse 21
- Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord,
- and we shall be turned;
- renew our days as of old.[12]
- "Turn": the word that is also used in Lamentations 1:13; Lamentations 3:40 has been in multiple messages from Jeremiah for his people to go back to God (Jeremiah 3:1; Jeremiah 3:7; Jeremiah 3:12; Jeremiah 3:14; Jeremiah 3:22; Jeremiah 4:1).[13]
- "Renew our days as of old": a request for "restoration" (compare Psalm 14:7; Psalm 90:13; Jeremiah 48:47; Zephaniah 3:14-20.[11]
Verse 22
KJV:
- But thou hast utterly rejected us;
- thou art very wroth against us.[14]
NKJV:
- Unless You have utterly rejected us,
- And are very angry with us![15]
Verse 22 in Hebrew
Masoretic text (from right to left)
- כי אם־מאס מאסתנו
- קצפת עלינו עד־מאד׃
Transliteration:
Verse 22 notes
- In many manuscripts and for Synagogue use, Lamentations 5:21 is repeated after Lamentations 5:22, so that the reading does not end with a painful statement; a practice that is also performed for the last verse of Isaiah, Ecclesiastes, and Malachi.[16]
See also
- Related Bible parts: Psalm 30, Isaiah 1, Jeremiah 3, Jeremiah 4
Notes and references
- ↑ Collins 2014.
- ↑ Hayes 2015.
- 1 2 3 Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset; David Brown. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary On the Whole Bible. 1871.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ Metzger, Bruce M., et al. The Oxford Companion to the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
- ↑ Keck, Leander E. 2001. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume: VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
- ↑ Gill, John. John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Exposition of the Old and New Testament. Published in 1746-1763. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ Dead sea scrolls - Lamentations
- ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 38 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ↑ Ulrich 2010, p. 753-754.
- ↑ Lamentations 5:1
- 1 2 The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1178-1179 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
- ↑ Lamentations 5:21
- ↑ The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997. ISBN 9780840715999. pp. 1330-1331.
- ↑ Lamentations 5:22
- ↑ Lamentations 5:22 NKJV
- ↑ Ellicott, C. J. A Bible Commentary for English Readers, on Lamentations 5:22. Arkose Press. 2015 [1878]. ISBN 9781345350784
Bibliography
- Ulrich, Eugene, ed. (2010). The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. Brill.
Bibliography
- Collins, John J. (2014). Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures. Fortress Press.
- Hayes, Christine (2015). Introduction to the Bible. Yale University Press.
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