Lamentations 5 (WEB)

God

Also called
LORD, Lord, Father, hosts, Almighty, Holy, GOD, Saviour, last, JEHOVAH, Judge, father, lawgiver, Fathers, dayspring, host, Ancient
Gender
Male
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Children AdamEve

Yahweh, the Personal Name of God

Word Study | Israel Loken • Hershel Wayne House
יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh ·Strong's H3068

Strictly speaking, the only personal name of God belonging to Him alone, and the most significant name of God found in the Old Testament (over 5000 times).  Yahweh is the approximate (and likely) pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, the four-letter word YHWH.  When Moses asked what His name was to take back to the Hebrews in Egypt, God replied, “I AM THAT I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה ehyeh esher ehyeh): and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה, ehyeh, 1st person singular, giving God's declaration of His name) has sent me to you” (Exod 3:14).  Thus God revealed to Moses the very essential meaning of His name as Yahweh (יְהוָ֞ה, Yahweh, 3rd person singular, the response of the people of God, He is).  There is a strong indication that Jesus (or Yeshua, Yahweh is salvation) used this name and its divine implication to apply to himself when he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (ἐγὼ εἰμί, egō eimi) (John 8:58).  Thus, the very Person who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush was the very same Person who addressed the startled Jews in the Gospel of John.

For a more complete discussion of the personal name of God, see the passage in Exodus in which He reveals His name to Moses, Exodus 3:14, 15.

A Name of God (אֱלֹהִים; 'elohim)

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House
אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym ·Strong's H430

This is a generic name for the divine being. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is regularly used in the plural in reference to the God of Israel but in regard to His majesty or intensity. The plural has a third person singular with the God of Israel, but a third plural with foreign deities.

Abba, Father

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House • Steve Stanley
Ἀββᾶ Abbâ ·Strong's G5

This Aramaic term is used only three times in the NT and approximately 80 times in the writings of the early church fathers when quoting or paraphrasing Jesus’ words. It is translated by the very next word in this verse as ὁ πατήρ (ho pater) “the Father,” as it is in all three NT uses. Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Hebrew, both languages being used in Israel. In Jesus’ day, abba was used for the father in the family, and was a customary title for God in prayer among the Jews. It was eventually taken over by Greek-speaking Christians as a liturgical formula. Some posit that abba is equivalent to “daddy,” an American English term for “father.” This assumes that the American informality expressed by children toward their father would have an analogy in Jesus’ culture, an assumption difficult to sustain. It is, therefore, not appropriate to refer to God as “daddy.” Linguistically, then, abba means "father" in Hebrew, Greek and English. It must be noted, however, that while “father” is a term of respect in biblical literature, it is also a term of affection, very deep and abiding affection. With His use of “Abba,” Jesus expresses His respectful and intimate relationship with His Heavenly Father in prayer, a wonderful example for all believers.

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Lamentations 5 (WEB)

1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us.

Look, and see our reproach.

2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

our houses to aliens.

3We are orphans and fatherless.

Our mothers are as widows.

4We must pay for water to drink.

Our wood is sold to us.

5Our pursuers are on our necks.

We are weary, and have no rest.

6We have given our hands to the Egyptians,

and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7Our fathers sinned, and are no more.

We have borne their iniquities.

8Servants rule over us.

There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

9We get our bread at the peril of our lives,

because of the sword in the wilderness.

10Our skin is black like an oven,

because of the burning heat of famine.

11They ravished the women in Zion,

the virgins in the cities of Judah.

12Princes were hanged up by their hands.

The faces of elders were not honored.

13The young men carry millstones.

The children stumbled under loads of wood.

14The elders have ceased from the gate,

and the young men from their music.

15The joy of our heart has ceased.

Our dance is turned into mourning.

16The crown has fallen from our head.

Woe to us, for we have sinned!

17For this our heart is faint.

For these things our eyes are dim:

18for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.

The foxes walk on it.

19You, Yahweh, remain forever.

Your throne is from generation to generation.

20Why do you forget us forever,

and forsake us for so long a time?

21Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned.

Renew our days as of old.

22But you have utterly rejected us.

You are very angry against us.

God