Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.
Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Psalms 74:10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are around us.
Psalms 89:50Remember, LORD, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty 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 →