John Trapp on Lamentations 5:21-22

Ver. 21. Turn thou us unto thee] That thou maiſt turn thee to us, as Zach. 1.3. Let there be a through-reformation wrought in us: and then a gracious reſtauration wrought for us.

Eſt Apoſiopeſis ad pathos.Ver. 22. But thou haſt utterly rejected us] This is a ſad Cataſtrophe, or cloſe of this doleful ditty. Sometimes Gods ſuppliants are put hard to it in the courſe of their Prayers: the laſt grain of their faith and patience ſeemeth to be put into the ſcale. When the Son of man cometh with deliverance to his praying people, ſhall he find faith in the earth? Hard and ſcarce: And yet he comes oft when they have even done looking for him: he is ſeen in the Mount, he helpeth thoſe that are forſaken of their hopes: Hallelujah. Sure it is that God cannot utterly reject his people whom he hath choſen, Rom. 11. Tremellius rendreth it, and ſo the Margin of our Bibles hath it (and I think better) For wilt thou utterly reject us, or be extreamly wrath with us? ſc. ſupra modulum noſtrum, according to thine infinite power, and above all that we are able to bear? I cannot think it, neither doth it conſiſt with thy Covenant.

Here (as alſo at the end of Eccleſiaſtes, Iſaiah and Malachy) many of the Hebrew Bibles repeat the foregoing verſe, Turn thou us unto thee O Lord, &c. yet without pricks, left any thing ſhould ſeem added thereby to the holy Scriptures. The reaſon here of read in the end of the Prophecy of Iſa. This is alſo here obſerved by the moſt renowned Mr. Thomas Gataker, whom for honour ſake I name, and to whoſe moſt accurate and elaborate Annotations upon Iſaiah and Jeremy I have been not a little beholden, all along. Theſe he finiſhed not long before his death, to the great glory of God and good of his Church:Fretum Magellanicum. And of him, and this worthy Work of his I may fitly ſay as a learned man doth of Magellanus the Portingal (that great Navigator) that the Strait or Sea now called by his name, unâ navigatione ſimul & immortalem gloriam & mortem ei attulerit, Boxhorn. hiſtor. univerſal. was both his death, and his never-dying Monument.

1 Sam. 7.12. Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.