Lamentations 5:19-20
And yet, GOD, you're sovereign still,
your throne intact and eternal.
20 So why do you keep forgetting us?
Why dump us and leave us like this?
There is a reason that the book of Lamentations is called Lamentations; it is a lament, no better reflected than in these words here. The author (Jeremiah?) has been through the turmoil of seeing Judah destroyed by the Babylonians—and this is not turmoil as we think of it, calamity would be a better description.
These verses demonstrate both the faith of the author in spite of the calamity, as well as the questions with which the author struggles. All too human questions, surely questions which we would have asked as well given the situation. Why do you keep forgetting us? Why dump us and leave us like this?
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