New American Standard Bible 1995
Lamentations 5:1
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 befallen us; Look, and see our reproach! 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliens. 3We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.
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זְכֹ֤ר יְהוָה֙ מֶֽה־הָ֣יָה לָ֔נוּ הַבִּ֖יטָה וּרְאֵ֥ה אֶת־חֶרְפָּתֵֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:1
- Lamentations 1:20See, O Lord, for I am in distress; My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword slays; In the house it is like death.
- Lamentations 2:20See, O Lord, and look! With whom have You dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, The little ones who were born healthy? Should priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
- Nehemiah 1:8Remember the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful I will scatter you among the peoples;
- Job 7:7“Remember that my life is but breath; My eye will not again see good.
- Job 10:9Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again?
- Jeremiah 15:15You who know, O Lord, Remember me, take notice of me, And take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away; Know that for Your sake I endure reproach.
- Habakkuk 3:2Lord, I have heard the report about You and I fear. O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.
- Luke 23:42And he was saying, “Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!”
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, “Is this the city of which they said, ‘The perfection of beauty, A joy to all the earth’?”
- Lamentations 3:61You have heard their reproach, O Lord, All their schemes against me.
- Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire.”
- Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God, how we are despised! Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity.
- Psalms 44:13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those around us.
- Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will the adversary revile, And the enemy spurn Your name forever?
- Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision 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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Notes
- 1. Lamentations 5:1 Ps 44:13-16 ↩
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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