Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me: “Those who have remained and have been left behind from the captivity, there in the province, are in great affliction and in disgrace. And the wall of Jerusalem has been broken apart, and its gates have been burned with fire.”
Nehemiah 4:4Listen, O our God, for we have become an object of contempt. Turn their reproach upon their own head, and grant that they may be despised in a land of captivity.
Job 10:9Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.
Psalms 74:10But I will announce it in every age. I will sing to the God of Jacob.
Psalms 79:4Convert us, O God. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.
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 →