Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
In Context
2Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3and they say to me, 'Those left, who have been left of the captivity there in the province, [are] in great evil, and in reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burnt with fire.'
Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;
Job 10:9Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
Psalms 74:10Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?
Psalms 79:4We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.
Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings 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 →