{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_lam005_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_lam005_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_lam005_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/lam005.htm","summary":"This is a synoptic presentation of Lamentations 5 (the book's final chapter) displayed in four parallel versions: the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate, and the King James English translation. The work belongs to the biblical lament tradition \u2014 a communal dirge in the voice of a devastated Jerusalem following the Babylonian destruction. Its content is a catalogue of national suffering: loss of land and homes to foreigners, orphaned children, women violated, elders humiliated, forced labor, famine, and subjugation under foreign powers. A distinctive theological tension runs through the chapter: the community confesses that their fathers sinned and they bear the inherited punishment, yet they also protest what feels like abandonment by a God whose eternal throne is never in doubt. The chapter closes with unresolved anguish \u2014 a plea for restoration (\"turn us back to you, O LORD\") immediately undercut by the fear that God may have utterly and permanently rejected them \u2014 making it one of the bleakest endings in the biblical canon, unusual for a prayer psalm in that it offers no confident resolution.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Lamentations: Lamentations 5","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":978}