Tree of Life Version
Lamentations 5:19
19You, Adonai, are enthroned forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
- New International Version (NIV)You, Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You, O Lord, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.
Context of Lamentations 5:19
17Because of this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim, 18for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, as jackals prowl over it. You, Adonai, are enthroned forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation. 20Why do You always forget us and forsake us for so long? 21Bring us back to You, Adonai, and we will return. Renew our days as of old—
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:19 word by word
אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לְעוֹלָ֣ם תֵּשֵׁ֔ב כִּסְאֲךָ֖ לְדֹ֥ר וָדֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:19
- Deuteronomy 33:27A refuge is the ancient God, and underneath are everlasting arms. He drove out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy!’
- Psalms 9:7The enemy is finished, in ruins forever. You overturned their cities— even the memory of them has perished.
- Psalms 10:16Adonai is King forever and ever! Nations will be wiped off His land.
- Psalms 29:10Adonai sits enthroned over the flood. Yes, Adonai sits as King forever.
- Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born, or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God!
- Psalms 102:12My days are like a lengthening shadow, and I wither away like grass.
- Habakkuk 1:12Are not You from antiquity— Adonai my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Adonai, You have ordained him for judgment—as You, O Rock, have established him to chasten.
- 1 Timothy 1:17Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Timothy 6:15This He will reveal in His own time—the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and the Lord of lords,
- Hebrews 1:10And, “In the beginning, Adonai, You laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of Your hands.
- Hebrews 13:8Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- Revelation 1:4John, To Messiah’s seven communities in Asia: Grace to you and shalom from Him who is and who was and who is to come, as well as from the seven spirits who are before His throne,
- Psalms 45:6Your arrows are sharp. Peoples fall beneath you— into the heart of the king’s enemies.
- Psalms 145:13Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages, and Your dominion endures from generation to generation.
- Psalms 146:10Adonai will reign forever, your God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluyah!
- Daniel 2:44“Now in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will this kingdom be left to another people. It will crush and bring to an end all of these kingdoms. But it will endure forever.
Commentaries on Lamentations 5:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever - Thou sufferest no change. Thou didst once love us, O let that love be renewed towards us!Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19Remainest - Or, reignest. The earthly sanctuary is in ruins, but the heavenly throne in unchangeable glory.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-22Verses 17-22 The people of God express deep concern for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities. But whatever changes there are on earth, God is still the same, and remains for ever wise and holy, just and good; with Him there is no variableness nor shadow of turning. They earnestly pray to God for mercy and grace; Turn us to thee, O Lord. God never leaves any till they first leave him; if he turns them to him in a way of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. (Psa 102:12). The perpetuity of God's rule over human affairs, however He may seem to let His people be oppressed for a time, is their ground of hope of restoration.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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