Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
Majority Standard Bible
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 over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”
Nehemiah 4:4Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
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 →