Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3And they said unto me, The remnant who are left of the captivity, there in the province, are in great misfortune and reproach, the wall of Jerusalem, is broken down, and, the gates thereof, are burned with fire.
Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God, for we have become a contempt, and turn thou back their reproach upon their own head,—and give them up as a prey, in the land of captivity;
Job 10:9Remember, I pray thee, that, as clay, thou didst make me, and, unto dust, thou wilt cause me to return.
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary, reproach? Shall the enemy revile thy Name perpetually?
Psalms 79:4We have become, A reproach to our neighbours,—A mockery and a derision, to them who are round about us.
Psalms 89:50Remember, O My Lord, the reproach of thy servants, I have carried in my bosom the insult of the 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 →