Lamentations 5:1
Lord, have thou mind what befell to us, (or Lord, remember what hath happened to us); see thou, and behold our shame.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me, They that be left of the captivity, and that dwelled there still in the province, be in great torment, and shame; and the wall of Jerusalem is destroyed, and the gates of it be burnt with fire. (And they said to me, They who survived the captivity, and had returned there to the province, be in great torment, and shame or They who had remained there in the province, and had not gone into captivity, be in great torment, and shame; and the wall of Jerusalem is broken in many places, and its gates be burned with fire.)
Nehemiah 4:4And Nehemiah said ( in prayer), Our God, hear thou, for we be made despising (for we be despised); turn thou the shame upon their own head (s), and give thou them into despising in the land of captivity;
Job 10:9Lord, I pray thee, have thou mind, that thou madest me as clay, and shalt bring me again into dust. ( Lord, I pray thee, remember that thou madest me like the clay or remember that thou madest me from the clay, and now shalt thou return me to the dust?)
Psalms 74:10God, how long shall the enemy say despite? the adversary stirreth to ire thy name into the end. (God, how long shall the enemy show their despising of us? shall the adversary scorn thy name forever?)
Psalms 79:4We be made (a) shame to our neighbours; mocking and scorning to them, that be in our compass. (We were made a reproach to our neighbours; mocked and scorned by those who be all around us.)
Psalms 89:50Lord, be thou mindful of the shame of thy servants; (of the curses) of many heathen men, which I held together in my bosom. (Lord, remember thy servant’s shame; remember the curses of many of the heathen, which I carried in my heart.)
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 →