Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Lamentations 5:1 in other translations
| BSB | Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace! |
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| WEB | Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach. |
| ASV | Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. |
| YLT | Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach. |
| DARBY | Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach. |
| BBE | Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame. |
| Webster | Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. |
What does Lamentations 5:1 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Introduction
This chapter is, as it were, an epiphonema, or conclusion to the four preceding, representing the nation as groaning under their calamities, and humbly supplicating the Divine favor, vv. 1-22. Verse 1 Remember, 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 prostrated themselves before him to ask for mercy. Be this as it may, no attempt appears to have been made to throw these verses into the form of the preceding chapters. It is properly a solemn prayer of all the people, stating their past and present sufferings, and praying for God's mercy. Behold our reproach - הביט hebita. But many MSS. of Kennicott's, and the oldest of my own, add the ה he paragogic, הביטה hebitah, "Look down earnestly with commiseration;" for paragogic letters always increase the sense.Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Lamentations 5:1 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 5:1
- Psalms 44:13-16
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
- Psalms 89:50-51
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
- Lamentations 3:61
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;
- Psalms 79:12
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
- Jeremiah 15:15
O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
- Nehemiah 4:4
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
- Psalms 74:10-11
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
- Psalms 123:3-4
Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
- Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
- Habakkuk 3:2
O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
- Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Psalms 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
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- Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:1 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ACUÉRDATE, oh Jehová, de lo que nos ha sucedido: ve y mira nuestro oprobio. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Souviens-toi, ô Éternel! de ce qui nous est arrivé. Regarde, et vois notre opprobre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gedenke Jehova, dessen, was uns geschehen! schaue her und sieh unsere Schmach! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis; intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum. |