Restore us, O LORD
Lamentations 5
22 verses≈ 3 minBSB
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Where we are
- 1The lonely cityZion weeps, and no one comforts her
- 2The Lord’s angerWalls, altar and gates thrown down
- 3New every morningThe afflicted man finds hope in the LORD
- 4The gold grown dimSiege and famine, the king taken, Edom warned
- 5Restore us, O LORDThe people’s prayer from the ruinsChapter 5
A Prayer for Restoration
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us.
Look and see our disgrace!
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The people of Judah
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to foreigners.
We have become fatherless orphans;
our mothers are widows.
The people of Judah
We must buy the water we drink;
our wood comes at a price.
We are closely pursued;
we are weary and find no rest.
Question
Quick question
Think back over the first four poems.
How is the last poem different from the first four?
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria
to get enough bread.
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
Slaves rule over us;
there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
The people of Judah
We get our bread at the risk of our lives
because of the sword in the wilderness.
Our skin is as hot as an oven
with fever from our hunger.
Women have been ravished in Zion,
virgins in the cities of Judah.
Princes have been hung up by their hands;
elders receive no respect.
The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
You, O LORD, reign forever;
Your throne endures from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:19
Why have You forgotten us forever?
Why have You forsaken us for so long?
Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return;
renew our days as of old,
unless You have utterly rejected us
and remain angry with us beyond measure.
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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain
Pray
Pray
LORD, You reign forever, even over the ruins. Restore me to Yourself so I may return. Renew what is broken in me, and in Your people, and do not let us go.
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You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:19
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