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<p class="tab-1">This chapter, though it has the same number of verses with the 1<sup>st</sup>, 2<sup>nd</sup>, and 4<sup>th</sup>, is not alphabetical, as they were, but the scope of it is the same with that of all the foregoing elegies. We have in it, I. A representation of the present calamitous state of God’s people in their captivity, <a class="bibleref" title="Lam.5.1-Lam.5.16" href="/passage/?search=Lam.5.1-Lam.5.16">Lam. 5:1-16</a>. II. A protestation of their concern for God’s sanctuary, as that which lay nearer their heart than any secular interest of their own, <a class="bibleref" title="Lam.5.17,Lam.5.18" href="/passage/?search=Lam.5.17,Lam.5.18"><span class="bibleref" title="Lam.5.17">Lam. 5:17</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Lam.5.18">18</span></a>. III. A humble supplication to God and expostulation with him, for the returns of mercy (<a class="bibleref" title="Lam.5.19-Lam.5.22" href="/passage/?search=Lam.5.19-Lam.5.22">Lam. 5:19-22</a>); for those that lament and do not pray sin in their lamentations. Some ancient versions call this chapter, “The Prayer of Jeremiah.”</p>
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