Christian Standard Bible
Lamentations 5:1
1Lord, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace!
Lamentations 5:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- New International Version (NIV)Remember, Lord, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!
Context of Lamentations 5:1
Lord, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace! 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. 3We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows.
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זְכֹ֤ר יְהוָה֙ מֶֽה־הָ֣יָה לָ֔נוּ הַבִּ֖יטָה וּרְאֵ֥ה אֶת־חֶרְפָּתֵֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:1
- Lamentations 1:20Lord, see how I am in distress. I am churning within; my heart is broken, for I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword takes the children; inside, there is death.
- Lamentations 2:20Lord, look and consider to whom you have done this. Should women eat their own children, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison.
- Nehemiah 1:8Please remember what you commanded your servant Moses: “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples.
- Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eye will never again see anything good.
- Job 10:9Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust?
- Jeremiah 15:15You know, Lord; remember me and take note of me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In your patience, don’t take me away. Know that I suffer disgrace for your honor.
- Habakkuk 3:2Lord, I have heard the report about you; Lord, I stand in awe of your deeds. Revive your work in these years; make it known in these years. In your wrath remember mercy!
- Luke 23:42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass by scornfully clap their hands at you. They hiss and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
- Lamentations 3:61Lord, you heard their insults, all their plots against me.
- Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “The remnant in the province, who survived the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned.”
- Nehemiah 4:4Listen, our God, for we are despised. Make their insults return on their own heads and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
- Psalms 44:13You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.
- Psalms 74:10God, how long will the enemy mock? Will the foe insult your name forever?
- Psalms 79:4We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.
Commentaries on Lamentations 5:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Remember, O Lord - In the Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic, this is headed, "The prayer of Jeremiah." In my old MS. Bible: Here bigynneth the orison of Jeremye the prophete. Though this chapter consists of exactly twenty-two verses, the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet, yet the acrostic form is no longer observed. Perhaps any thing so technical was not thought proper when in agony and distress (under a sense of God's displeasure on account of sin) they…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1What is come upon us - literally, “what” has happened “to us:” our national disgrace.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The Jewish nation supplicating the Divine favour. Verses 1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned! All our woes are owing to our own sin…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-221. (Psa 89:50, 51).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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