Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 aliens: our houses to strangers.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me: They that have remained, and are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction, and reproach: and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire.
Nehemiah 4:4Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust again.
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?
Psalms 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 89:50Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth?
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 →