Lamentations 5:1
Remember, Yahweh, what has happened to us; 1 look and see our disgrace. 1
Unlocked Literal 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; 1 our houses to foreigners. 1
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “Those in the province who survived the captivity are in great trouble and disgrace because the wall of Jerusalem has been broken open, and its gates have been set on fire.”
Nehemiah 4:4Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunts on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are prisoners.
Job 10:9Call to mind, I beg you, that you have fashioned me like clay; 1 will you bring me into dust again? 1
Psalms 74:10How long, God, will the enemy throw insults at you? 1 Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever? 1
Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach for our neighbors, 1 mocking and derision to those who are around us. 1
Psalms 89:50Call to mind, Lord, the mocking directed against your servants 1 and how I bear in my heart so many insults from the nations. 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 →