The final chapter is a communal prayer, pleading, “Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace.” The people lay out their sufferings (their inheritance turned over to strangers, their labor and shame, the joy gone from their hearts) and confess, “Woe to us, for we have sinned!” Yet they anchor their hope in God’s eternal reign, “You, O LORD, reign forever,” and end with the great cry of the book, “Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old.”
Lamentations study chapter
Lamentations 5
586 BCA closing prayer: “Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored.”
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