Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me, Those who remain, that are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and reproach; and the wall of Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates are burned with fire.
Nehemiah 4:4Hear, our God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in a land of captivity!
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
Psalms 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants that I bear in my bosom [that of] all the mighty peoples
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 →