New Living Translation
Lamentations 5:1
1Lord, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced!
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. See how we have been disgraced! 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. 3We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.
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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“Lord, see my anguish! My heart is broken and my soul despairs, for I have rebelled against you. In the streets the sword kills, and at home there is only death.
- Lamentations 2:20“O Lord, think about this! Should you treat your own people this way? Should mothers eat their own children, those they once bounced on their knees? Should priests and prophets be killed within the Lord’s Temple?
- Lamentations 3:19The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.
- Nehemiah 1:8“Please remember what you told your servant Moses: ‘If you are unfaithful to me, I will scatter you among the nations.
- Job 7:7O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness.
- Job 10:9Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon?
- Jeremiah 15:15Then I said, “Lord, you know what’s happening to me. Please step in and help me. Punish my persecutors! Please give me time; don’t let me die young. It’s for your sake that I am suffering.
- Habakkuk 3:2I have heard all about you, Lord. I am filled with awe by your amazing works. In this time of our deep need, help us again as you did in years gone by. And in your anger, remember your mercy.
- Luke 23:42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass by jeer at you. They scoff and insult beautiful Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city called ‘Most Beautiful in All the World’ and ‘Joy of All the Earth’?”
- Lamentations 3:61Lord, you have heard the vile names they call me. You know all about the plans they have made.
- Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”
- Nehemiah 4:4Then I prayed, “Hear us, our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land!
- Psalms 44:13You let our neighbors mock us. We are an object of scorn and derision to those around us.
- Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will you allow our enemies to insult you? Will you let them dishonor your name forever?
- Psalms 79:4We are mocked by our neighbors, an object of scorn 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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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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