Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3And they said unto me: 'The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach; the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.'
Nehemiah 4:4(3-36) Hear, O our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up to spoiling in a land of captivity;
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech Thee, that Thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt Thou bring me into dust again?
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever?
Psalms 79:4We are become a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 89:50(89-51) Remember, Lord, the taunt of Thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the taunt of so many 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 →