Lamentations 5:1
Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.
Nehemiah 4:4Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:
Job 10:9O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
Psalms 74:10O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?
Psalms 79:4We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.
Psalms 89:50\89:49\Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:1
This chapter, though it has the same number of verses with the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, is not alphabetical, as they were, but the scope of it is the same with that of all the foregoing elegies. We have in it, I. A representation of the present calamitous state of God's people in their captivity, ver. 1-16 . II. A protestation of their concern for God's sanctuary, as that which lay nearer their heart than any secular interest of their own, ver. 17, 18 . III. A humble supplication to God and expostulation with him, for… Read the whole commentary →