Lamentations 5:1
Lord, please remember what's happened to us. Look at us and see how we've been humiliated!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2The land we used to own has been handed over to strangers, our houses have been given to foreigners.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3They told me, “The remnant who are left from the exile are there in the province, but they are having a great deal of trouble and feel humiliated. Jerusalem's walls have been knocked over, and its gates burned down.”
Nehemiah 4:4I prayed, “Lord, please listen to us, because we are being treated with contempt. Rain down their insults on their own heads! Let them be taken away like plunder, prisoners in a foreign land!
Job 10:9Remember that you shaped me like a piece of clay—are you now going to turn me back into dust?
Psalms 74:10How long will the enemy ridicule you, God? Will they insult your character forever?
Psalms 79:4We have been made a mockery before our neighbors, ridiculed and laughed at by those around us.
Psalms 89:50Don't forget, Lord, how your servants are being humiliated! I'm burdened down with the insults of so many nations!
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 →