Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold our reproach!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2Our inheritance is fallen to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Cross References
Job 10:9O remember that thou hast moulded me as clay! And wilt thou bring me again to dust?
Psalms 74:10How long, O God! shall the adversary revile? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psalms 79:4We have become the reproach of our neighbors,—The scorn and derision of those around us.
Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord! the reproach of thy servants, How I bear in my bosom the taunts 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 →