Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: 1 Behold, and look on our reproach. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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, 1 Our houses to strangers: 1
Cross References
Job 10:9Remember that thou hast made me as clay, 1 And thou dost turn me again to earth. 1
Psalms 74:10But I will exult forever: 1 I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 1
Psalms 79:4Turn us, O God, 1 And cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered. 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 →