Lamentations 5

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Lamentations 5
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A handwritten Hebrew scroll of Lamentations by the scribe Elihu Shannon of Kibbutz Saad, Israel (2010).
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Lamentations 5 is the fifth (and the last) chapter of the Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, [1] [2] part of the Ketuvim ("Writings"). [3] [4]

Contents

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew language and is divided into 22 verses. Like the other chapters, it has 22 stanzas (the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet). But unlike them, these are not alphabetic-acrostic. The line-length is shorter than in the other chapters. [5] Each line contains twelve syllables, marked by a cæsura about the middle, dividing them into two somewhat unequal parts. [5] This chapter serves as an epiphonema, or a closing recapitulation of the calamities treated in the previous chapters. [5]

In some Greek copies, and in the Latin Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic versions, it is headed "The Prayer of Jeremiah". [6]

Textual versions

Some early witnesses for the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text, which includes Codex Leningradensis (1008). [7] [lower-alpha 1] Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 5Q6 (5QLama; 50 CE) with extant verses 1‑13, 16‑17. [9] [10] [11]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century). [12] [lower-alpha 2]

Verse 1

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us:
consider, and behold our reproach. [14]

Verse 8

Servants have ruled over us:
there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. [16]

"Servants", or "slaves" in the Revised Standard Version and the Jerusalem Bible, refers to "Chaldean officials". [17]

Verse 21

The word /v@na'suba/ in Ekhah (Lamentations) 5:21. The ga'ja in the word (marked in red) renders the shva stressed. In the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic tradition, the pronunciation is ['vana'suba]. Ga'ya.png
The word /vənā'šūḇā/ in Ekhah (Lamentations) 5:21. The ga'ja in the word (marked in red) renders the shva stressed. In the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic tradition, the pronunciation is ['vanā'šūḇā].
Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord,
and we shall be turned;
renew our days as of old. [18]

Verse 22

KJV:

But thou hast utterly rejected us;
thou art very wroth against us. [20]

NKJV:

Unless You have utterly rejected us,
And are very angry with us! [21]

Verse 22 in Hebrew

Masoretic text (from right to left)

כי אם־מאס מאסתנו
קצפת עלינו עד־מאד׃

Transliteration:

’im - mā-’ōs mə-’as-tā-nū ,
qā-ṣap̄-tā ‘ā-lê-nū ‘aḏ mə-’ōḏ .

In many manuscripts and for Synagogue use, Lamentations 5:21 is repeated after verse 22, so that the reading does not end with a painful statement, a practice which is also performed for the last verse of Isaiah, Ecclesiastes, and Malachi, [22] "so that the reading in the Synagogue might close with words of comfort". [23]

See also

Notes

  1. Since 1947 the whole book is missing from Aleppo Codex. [8]
  2. Only Lamentations 1:1–2:20 are extant in the Codex Sinaiticus. [13]

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References

  1. Collins 2014, pp. 365–367.
  2. Hayes 2015, Chapter 20.
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  13. Wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Codex Sinaiticus". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  14. Lamentations 5:1 KJV
  15. 1 2 Coogan 2007, pp. 1178-1179 Hebrew Bible.
  16. Lamentations 5:8 KJV
  17. Jerusalem Bible (1966), footnote at Lamentations 5:8
  18. Lamentations 5:21 KJV
  19. The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997. ISBN   9780840715999. pp. 1330-1331.
  20. Lamentations 5:22 KJV
  21. Lamentations 5:22 NKJV
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