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Lamentations 5:22

What does Lamentations 5:22 mean?

A plain-English look at Lamentations 5:22 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

What Lamentations 5:22 means

The chapter ends with the hard words, “But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.” This is how their present condition feels under judgment—rejection and fierce anger. The line does not cancel the hope of verses 19 and 21; it expresses the rawness of life before restoration comes. By ending here, the prayer refuses cheap consolation and waits on God to answer. The people have confessed sin, described their ruin, affirmed God’s rule, and begged for renewal. Now they leave their pain with Him, trusting that the everlasting King can turn rejection into favor when He chooses.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us--exceedingly?

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?

Context

After pleading for God to turn and renew them, the final verse states the felt reality of wrath and rejection. The chapter closes without neat resolution, true to the experience of survivors after Jerusalem’s fall. Yet the preceding confession of God’s eternal throne and the request for divine turning provide the deeper frame. The book ends with lament in the mouth, but with eyes lifted toward the only One who can restore.

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

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Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hosea 1:6

    And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And Jehovah said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.

  • Jeremiah 15:1

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

  • Psalms 44:9

    But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.

  • Isaiah 64:9

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

  • Ezekiel 37:11

    Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

  • Psalms 60:1

    O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.

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