New King James Version
Lamentations 5:1
1Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!
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 Living Translation (NLT)Lord, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced!
Context of Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach! 2Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners. 3We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like 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 1:20“See, O Lord, that I am in distress; My soul is troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. Outside the sword bereaves, At home it is like death.
- Lamentations 2:20“See, O Lord, and consider! To whom have You done this? Should the women eat their offspring, The children they have cuddled? Should the priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.
- Nehemiah 1:8Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations;
- Job 7:7Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good.
- Job 10:9Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again?
- Jeremiah 15:15O Lord, You know; Remember me and visit me, And take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In Your enduring patience, do not take me away. Know that for Your sake I have suffered rebuke.
- Habakkuk 3:2O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; 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 23:42Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that is called ‘The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth’?”
- Lamentations 3:61You have heard their reproach, O Lord, All their schemes against me,
- Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
- Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach on their own heads, and give them as plunder to a land of captivity!
- Psalms 44:13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
- Psalms 74:10O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?
- Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are 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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