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Lamentations 5 — Sermon Preparation
The community pleads with the Lord to look and see their disgrace, confesses the long reign of their enemies, and begs the Lord not to reject them forever. Below is a research summary for Lamentations 5, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 22
- verses
- 145 / 109
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 24
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Lamentations 5 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בָּחוּר | bâchûwr | H970 | 2 | selected, youth |
| שָׁבַת | shâbath | H7673 | 2 | repose, desist from exertion |
| מָאַס | mâʼaç | H3988 | 2 | spurn, disappear |
| הָפַךְ | hâphak | H2015 | 2 | turn, change |
| יָד | yâd | H3027 | 3 | hand, open |
| צִיּוֹן | Tsîyôwn | H6726 | 2 | Tsijon, capital |
| דּוֹר | dôwr | H1755 | 2 | revolution, age |
How preachers through history handled this text
24 public-domain excerpts on Lamentations 5, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 1. Memento (recordare,) Jehova, quid sit nobis (hoc est, quomodo nobiscum agatur.) aspice et vide opprobrium nostrum. This prayer ought to be read as unconnected with the Lamentations, for the initial letters of the verses are not written according to the order of the Alphabet; yet it is a complaint rather than a prayer; for Jeremiah mentions those things which had happened to the people in their extreme calamity in order to turn God to compassion and mercy. …”
— Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations - Volume 5, on Lamentations 5:1 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Zion— Lam 5:11
- Mount Zion— Lam 5:18
- Assyria— Lam 5:6
- Egypt— Lam 5:6
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