Lamentations 5:22
unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
BSB
ASV
But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.
KJV
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
But thou hast utterly rejected us - It appears as if thou hadst sealed our final reprobation, because thou showest against us exceeding great wrath. But convert us, O Lord, onto thee, and we shall be converted. We are now greatly humbled, feel our sin, and see our folly: once more restore us, and we shall never again forsake thee! He heard the prayer; and at the end of seventy years they were restored to their own land.
For converting grace to prepare and qualify them for mercy: Turn us to thee, O Lord! They had complained that God had forsaken and forgotten them, and then their prayer is not, Turn thou to us, but, Turn us to thee, which implies an acknowledgment that the cause of the distance was in themselves.
Rather, "Unless haply Thou hast utterly rejected us, and art beyond measure wroth against us," that is, Unless Thou art implacable, which is impossible, hear our prayer [CALVIN].
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
leads to
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
Through
Psalms 44:9But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
leads to
Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!