Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me, The remnant, even those that are left of the captivity, are there in the land, in great distress and reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem are thrown down, and its gates are burnt with fire.
Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God, for we have become a scorn; and return you their reproach upon their head, and make them a scorn in a land of captivity,
Job 10:9Remember that you have made me as clay, and you do turn me again to earth.
Psalms 74:10And I will break all the horns of sinners; but the horns of the righteous one shall be exalted.
Psalms 79:4O Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry with the prayer of your servant? 1
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 →