Lamentations 5:19
in Lamentations 5You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
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ASV
Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.
KJV
Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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This verse in Lamentations 5
Commentary
9 notes on this verseThou, O Lord, remainest for ever - Thou sufferest no change. Thou didst once love us, O let that love be renewed towards us!
This site's exposition
You, O LORD, reign forever
on Lamentations 5:19-20
Verse 19 turns from the ruined mountain to the throne that stands: “You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation”. Verse 20 sets the present distance beside that permanence, asking “Why have You forsaken us for so long?” of the God whose reign it has confessed.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Here a person is inclined to beseech the Lord. First is acknowledged the eternity of the divine being, or substance. As said: "But thou, O Lord, dost reign forever." Then is expressed the duration of the divine royal glory: "thy throne endures to all generations." …
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Of the never-failing continuance of his dominion: Thy throne is from generation to generation; the throne of glory, the throne of grace, and the throne of government, are all unchangeable, immovable; and this is matter of comfort to us when the crown has fallen from our head.
Thy throne - Altho' for our sins thou sufferest our throne to be cast down, yet thou art the same, thy power is not diminished, nor thy goodness abated.
Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever,....
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! Is any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The perpetuity of God's rule over human affairs, however He may seem to let His people be oppressed for a time, is their ground of hope of restoration.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Remainest - Or, reignest. The earthly sanctuary is in ruins, but the heavenly throne in unchangeable glory.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
Adonoy, You. We know that You will remain forever. And because that is so..
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Why [then O Eternal] do You forget us. Have You not sworn to us Yourself that just as You exist, so does Your oath exist?
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַתָּ֤ה | ʾatah | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| לְעוֹלָ֣ם | leolam | for ever | H5769 → | 438 times |
| תֵּשֵׁ֔ב | teshev | you will sit | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| כִּסְאֲךָ֖ | kisakha | throne your | H3678 → | |
| לְדֹ֥ר | ledor | [is] to a generation | H1755 → | |
| וָדֽוֹר׃ | vador | and a generation | H1755 → |
אַתָּ֤הyou
ʾatahH859 →1094 times
יְהוָה֙O Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
לְעוֹלָ֣םfor ever
leolamH5769 →438 times
תֵּשֵׁ֔בyou will sit
teshevH3427 →1079 times
כִּסְאֲךָ֖throne your
kisakhaH3678 →
לְדֹ֥ר[is] to a generation
ledorH1755 →
וָדֽוֹר׃and a generation
vadorH1755 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 45:6Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
it leads to
- Hebrews 1:8–9
But about the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
- Psalms 93:2
Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.
- John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- Isaiah 9:6–7
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of…
- Hebrews 1:8–9
Through
Psalms 145:13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful in all His words and kind in all His actions.
it leads to
- 1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Timothy 1:17
Through
Psalms 102:12But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
it leads to
- Psalms 135:13
Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your renown, O LORD, through all generations.
- Exodus 3:15
God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My…
- Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
- Psalms 135:13
Where this verse is studied
About Lamentations
This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.