Lamentations 1:22 Meaning and Explanation
“Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The chapter ends by laying the enemies' wickedness before God and confessing a heart faint with endless sighing.
What Does Lamentations 1:22 Mean?
The closing prayer hands the whole matter over to God: 'Let all their wickedness come before thee.' She does not take revenge into her own grasp; she sets it down before the righteous Judge and asks him to deal with it as he sees fit. Even her cry for justice is an act of release, entrusting the verdict to the One who judges rightly.
And the chapter ends where it has lived all along, in the honest exhaustion of grief: 'my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.' There is no tidy resolution here, no comfort yet arrived. The first poem closes still weeping. Lamentations will not rush the sorrow; it lets the heart be faint, trusting that even a faint heart, turned toward God, is not abandoned by him.
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What does Lamentations 1:22 mean?
The chapter ends by laying the enemies' wickedness before God and confessing a heart faint with endless sighing.