God’s Word Translation
Lamentations 5:1
1“Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us. Take a look at 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
“Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us. Take a look at our disgrace! 2“The land we inherited has been turned over to strangers. Our homes have been turned over to foreigners. 3We are orphans without a father. Our mothers are like widows.
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:1 word by word
זְכֹ֤ר יְהוָה֙ מֶֽה־הָ֣יָה לָ֔נוּ הַבִּ֖יטָה וּרְאֵ֥ה אֶת־חֶרְפָּתֵֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:1
- Lamentations 1:20“O Lord, see the distress I’m in! My stomach is churning. My heart is pounding because I’ve been very bitter. In the streets swords kill my children. Inside the houses it’s like death.
- Lamentations 2:20“O Lord, look and consider: Have you ever treated anyone like this? Should women eat their own children, the children they have nursed? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s holy place?
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my suffering and my ⌞aimless⌟ wandering, the wormwood and poison.
- Nehemiah 1:8Please remember what you told us through your servant Moses: ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations.
- Job 7:7Remember, my life is only a breath, and never again will my eyes see anything good.
- Job 10:9Please remember that you made me out of clay and that you will return me to the dust again.
- Jeremiah 15:15O Lord, you understand. Remember me, take care of me, and take revenge on those who persecute me. Be patient, and don’t take me away. You should know that I’ve been insulted because of you.
- Habakkuk 3:2Lord, I have heard the report about you. Lord, I fear your work. In the course of the years, renew it. In the course of the years, reveal it. In all this chaos, remember to be merciful.
- Luke 23:42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you enter your kingdom.”
- Lamentations 2:15Everyone who walks along the road shakes a fist at you. They hiss and shake their heads at Jerusalem’s people: ‘Is this the city they used to call absolutely beautiful, the joy of the whole world?’
- Lamentations 3:61Listen to their insults, all their plots against me.
- Nehemiah 1:3They told me, “Those who survived captivity are in the province. They are enduring serious troubles and being insulted. The wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its gates have been destroyed by fire.”
- Nehemiah 4:4⌞Nehemiah prayed,⌟ “Our God, hear us. We are despised. Turn their insults back on them, and let them be robbed in the land where they are prisoners.
- Psalms 44:13You made us a disgrace to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.
- Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will the enemy insult us? Will the enemy despise you forever?
- Psalms 79:4We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and contempt 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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