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Lamentations 5:19

You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:19 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
  • KJV Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
  • NKJV You, O Lord, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.
  • NASB ¶You, Lord, rule forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
  • NLT But Lord, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation.

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Quick answer

In contrast to ruined Zion, the LORD reigns forever and His throne endures through all generations. God's eternal sovereignty is the anchor of hope.

Overview

Against the backdrop of a destroyed city and a fallen crown, the poet lifts his eyes to Yahweh, whose throne is unshaken and everlasting. This affirmation of God's enduring reign is the foundation for the prayer that follows. When everything earthly fails, the believer rests in the unchanging kingship of God, fully revealed in the eternal throne of Christ (Hebrews 1:8).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • Ps 102:12But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
  • Ps 45:6Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
  • Heb 1:8–12But about the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
  • Ps 102:25–27In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
  • Ps 145:13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful in all His words and kind in all His actions.
  • Ps 9:7But the LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment.
  • Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.
  • 1 Tim 1:17Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Heb 13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
  • Ps 146:10The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah!
  • Ps 90:2Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
  • Hab 1:12Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
  • Deut 33:27The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
  • Dan 2:44In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.
  • Dan 7:27Then the sovereignty, dominion, and greatness of the kingdoms under all of heaven will be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will serve and obey Him.’
  • Dan 7:14And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
  • 1 Tim 6:15–16which the blessed and only Sovereign One—the King of kings and Lord of lords—will bring about in His own time.
  • Ps 10:16The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
  • Ps 29:10The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
  • Rev 1:17–18When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
  • Rev 1:4John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne,

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  • VideoBibleProject — Lamentations videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

The weeping over a ruined city and the steadfast mercies that are new every morning point to the man of sorrows who wept over Jerusalem and whose mercy rises new from the grave.

How Lamentations 5:19 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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