Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure. New Living Translation Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still? English Standard Version unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us. Berean Standard Bible unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure. King James Bible But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. New King James Version Unless You have utterly rejected us, And are very angry with us! New American Standard Bible Unless You have utterly rejected us And are exceedingly angry with us. NASB 1995 Unless You have utterly rejected us And are exceedingly angry with us. NASB 1977 Unless Thou hast utterly rejected us, And art exceedingly angry with us. Legacy Standard Bible Even if You have utterly rejected us And are exceedingly angry with us. Amplified Bible Unless You have utterly rejected us And are exceedingly angry with us. Christian Standard Bible unless you have completely rejected us and are intensely angry with us. Holman Christian Standard Bible unless You have completely rejected us and are intensely angry with us. American Standard Version But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us. Contemporary English Version Or do you despise us so much that you don't want us? English Revised Version But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art very wroth against us. GOD'S WORD® Translation unless you have completely rejected us [and] are very angry with us." Good News Translation Or have you rejected us forever? Is there no limit to your anger? International Standard Version unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit. Majority Standard Bible unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure. NET Bible unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure. New Heart English Bible unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure. Webster's Bible Translation But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. World English Bible But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly? Young's Literal Translation For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly? Smith's Literal Translation But rejecting, thou didst reject us; thou wert angry against us even greatly. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleBut thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us. Catholic Public Domain Version But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us. New American Bible For now you have indeed rejected us and utterly turned your wrath against us. New Revised Standard Version unless you have utterly rejected us, and are angry with us beyond measure. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor thou hast utterly rejected us; thou hast been exceedingly angry against us. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Because you have rejected us, and you have been very angry against us. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, And be exceeding wroth against us! Brenton Septuagint Translation For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Prayer for Restoration…21Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old, 22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure. Cross References Jeremiah 31:20 Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 54:7-8 “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back. / In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer. Psalm 89:46 How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire? Hosea 11:8-9 How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred! / I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath. Jeremiah 3:12 Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever. Psalm 77:7-9 “Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again? / Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time? / Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah Isaiah 57:16 For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made. Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.” Psalm 74:1 A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture? Isaiah 49:14-15 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!” / “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you! Jeremiah 32:37-41 I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety. / They will be My people, and I will be their God. / I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them. ... Deuteronomy 4:31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; / persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. Romans 11:1-2 I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. / God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel: Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.” Treasury of Scripture But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us. but thou hast utterly rejected us. Psalm 44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. Psalm 60:1,2 To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again… Jeremiah 15:1-5 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth… Jump to Previous Angry Exceeding Exceedingly Full Measure Quite Rejected Unless Utterly Wouldest Wrath WrothJump to Next Angry Exceeding Exceedingly Full Measure Quite Rejected Unless Utterly Wouldest Wrath WrothLamentations 5 1. A complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.unless You have utterly rejected us The phrase "unless You have utterly rejected us" is a poignant expression of the deep anguish and fear of abandonment felt by the Israelites. The Hebrew root for "rejected" is "מאס" (ma'as), which conveys a sense of being despised or cast off. This word is often used in the Old Testament to describe God's response to Israel's persistent disobedience and idolatry. Historically, the Israelites understood their covenant relationship with God as conditional upon their faithfulness. The fear of being "utterly rejected" reflects a profound awareness of their failure to uphold their part of the covenant. This phrase invites reflection on the nature of divine judgment and mercy, reminding believers of the importance of repentance and the hope of restoration through God's unfailing love. and remain exceedingly angry with us It may be noted that in Synagogue use, and in many MSS., Lamentations 5:21 is repeated after Lamentations 5:22, so that the book may not end with words of so terrible a significance. The same practice obtained in the case of the last verse of Isaiah, Ecclesiastes, and Malachi. Verse 22. - But; rather, unless. The poet wishes to suggest that the idea seems to him inconsistent with the covenant relationship of Jehovah towards Israel. May we not compare a striking passage in Isaiah which should probably be rendered thus: "A wife of one's youth, can she be rejected? saith thy God" (Isaiah 54:6)? Both passages express, in a most delicate way, the incredulity of the writers with regard to the absolute rejection of Israel. And thus this melancholy Book of Lamentations concludes with a hope, "faint, yet pursuing," of the final realization of the promises to Israel. The interpretation adopted admits of no reasonable doubt, in spite of the fact that ancient doctors of the synagogue thought otherwise when they established the custom of repeating ver. 21 after ver. 22 had been read, in order to soften the supposed gloomy impression of ver. 22. |
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