Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to 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 misery and in disgrace; and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and her gates are burnt with fire.
Nehemiah 4:4(3:36) Hear, O our God! how we are become a scorn; and bring their reproach back upon their own head, and give them up for prey in the land of captivity.
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that as though I were clay hast thou made me; and wilt thou cause me to return again unto the dust?
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary utter defiance? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psalms 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those that are round about us.
Psalms 89:50(89:51) Remember, Lord, the disgrace of thy servants; that I bear in my bosom the [burden] of all the 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 →