Lamentations 5:21 meaning and explanation

Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,

Lamentations 5:21, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the surviving community in Jerusalem after the Babylonians destroyed the city and temple in 586 BC. Chapter 5 is a communal prayer, and after confessing sin and describing ruin, the people ask God to bring them back.

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