Lamentations 5:1
Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
World Messianic 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 aliens.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
Nehemiah 4:4“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
Job 10:9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
Psalms 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Psalms 89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
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 →