Lamentations 5:21

Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned,.... This prayer expresses the sense they had of their backslidings from God, and distance from him; of their inability to turn themselves to the…

Renew our days as of old - Restore us to our former state. Let us regain our country, our temple, and all the Divine offices of our religion; but, more especially, thy favor.

Here, I. The people of God express the deep concern they had for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities; the interests of God's house lay nearer their hearts than those…

Turn thou us suggestive of Jer 31:18, but see note there. Here the sense is not, bring back the exiles, but give us a repentant heart. Cp. Psa 80:3 ff.