Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned,.... This prayer expresses the sense they had of their backslidings from God, and distance from him; of their inability to turn themselves to the Lord, or convert themselves; and of their need of divine grace, and of the efficacy of that to effect it; see Jer 31:18; for this is to be understood not only of returning them to their own land, and to the external worship of God in it; but of turning them to the Lord by true and perfect repentance, as the Targum; of the conversion of their hearts and the reformation of their lives:renew our days as of old; for good, as the Targum adds.
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Lamentations 5:21
Lamentations 5:21
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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