Lamentations 5

Lamentations 5
Lamentations 1:1 - 1:11 on the first page of Book of Lamentations in Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-350).
Book Book of Lamentations
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 25
Category Ketuvim

Lamentations 5 is the fifth (and the last) chapter of the Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.[1][2] This chapter contains the elegies of prophet Jeremiah as a humble prayer, presenting to the Lord their great misery, Lamentations 5:1-15, confessing their sins, Lamentations 5:16-18, imploring deliverance, Lamentations 5:19-22.[3] It is a part of the Ketuvim ("Writings").[4][5]

Text

  • The original text is written in Hebrew language.
  • This chapter is divided into 22 verses.
  • The fifth chapter (fifth elegy), though having twenty-two stanzas (the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet), just as the first four, yet is not alphabetical; and its lines are shorter than those of the others, which are longer than are found in other Hebrew poems, and contain twelve syllables, marked by a cæsura about the middle, dividing them into two somewhat unequal parts.[3]
  • It serves as an epiphonema, or a closing recapitulation of the calamities treated in the previous chapters/elegies.[3]
  • This chapter is called, in some Greek copies, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, "the Prayer of Jeremiah".[6]

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse 1

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us:
consider, and behold our reproach.[10]

Verse 21

Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord,
and we shall be turned;
renew our days as of old.[12]

Verse 22

KJV:

But thou hast utterly rejected us;
thou art very wroth against us.[14]

NKJV:

Unless You have utterly rejected us,
And are very angry with us![15]

Verse 22 in Hebrew

Masoretic text (from right to left)

כי אם־מאס מאסתנו
קצפת עלינו עד־מאד׃

Transliteration:

kî ’im-mā-’ōs mə-’as-tā-nū,
qā-ṣap̄-tā ‘ā-lê-nū ‘aḏ mə-’ōḏ.

Verse 22 notes

  • In many manuscripts and for Synagogue use, Lamentations 5:21 is repeated after Lamentations 5:22, so that the reading does not end with a painful statement; a practice that is also performed for the last verse of Isaiah, Ecclesiastes, and Malachi.[16]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Collins 2014.
  2. ↑ Hayes 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset; David Brown. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary On the Whole Bible. 1871. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ↑ Metzger, Bruce M., et al. The Oxford Companion to the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  5. ↑ Keck, Leander E. 2001. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume: VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  6. ↑ Gill, John. John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Exposition of the Old and New Testament. Published in 1746-1763. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. ↑ Dead sea scrolls - Lamentations
  8. ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 38 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  9. ↑ Ulrich 2010, p. 753-754.
  10. ↑ Lamentations 5:1
  11. 1 2 The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1178-1179 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
  12. ↑ Lamentations 5:21
  13. ↑ The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997. ISBN 9780840715999. pp. 1330-1331.
  14. ↑ Lamentations 5:22
  15. ↑ Lamentations 5:22 NKJV
  16. ↑ Ellicott, C. J. A Bible Commentary for English Readers, on Lamentations 5:22. Arkose Press. 2015 [1878]. ISBN 9781345350784

Bibliography

  • Ulrich, Eugene, ed. (2010). The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. Brill.

  • Collins, John J. (2014). Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures. Fortress Press.
  • Hayes, Christine (2015). Introduction to the Bible. Yale University Press.

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