Lamentations 5:22
Good News Translation
Or have you rejected us forever? Is there no limit to your anger?

New Revised Standard Version
unless you have utterly rejected us, and are angry with us beyond measure.

Contemporary English Version
Or do you despise us so much that you don't want us?

New American Bible
For now you have indeed rejected us and utterly turned your wrath against us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.

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But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.

but thou hast utterly rejected us.

Psalm 44:9 In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.

Psalm 60:1,2 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription of a title, to David himself, for doctrine, [2] When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal: and Joab returned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand men. [3] O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us. . . .

Jeremiah 15:1-5 And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth. . . .

Ezekiel 37:11 And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

Hosea 1:6 And she conceived again, and bore a daughter, and he said to him: Call her name, Without mercy: for I will not add any more to have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget them.

Context
A Prayer for Restoration
21Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning. 22But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.
Cross References
Psalm 53:5
They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.

Psalm 60:1
Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription of a title, to David himself, for doctrine, [2] When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal: and Joab returned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand men. [3] O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us.

Psalm 60:2
Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the breaches thereof, for it has been moved.

Isaiah 64:9
Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.

Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on high: for the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the generation of his wrath,

Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.

Lamentations 5:21
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