Verse 19
THE PRAYER, Lamentations 5:19-22.
19. Thou… remainest for ever Nothing could be more fitting or more impressive than this pathetic appeal to the immutable sovereignty of Jehovah. Men may die, institutions may fail, kingdoms may come to a perpetual end, but the resources of God are unfailing. His throne standeth forever, from generation to generation. And if God lives his people cannot die. If the head is above the water the body cannot be drowned.
“Under the shadow of his throne,
Still may we dwell secure.”
He who sitteth eternally enthroned will not forget for ever his own people. And yet this hope and confidence does not “rise to the heights of joyful victory, but, as Gerlach expresses himself, ‘merely glimmers from afar, like the morning star through the clouds, which does not, indeed, itself dispel the shadows of the night, though it announces that the rising of the sun is near, and that it shall obtain the victory.’ ” Keil.
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