Lamentations 5:1 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

KJV

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ASV

Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

WEB

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

YLT

Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

DBT

Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.

About this book

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Psalms 44:13–16
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 119:153
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Psalms 132:1
Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
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;
Lamentations 3:61
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

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What was of old threatened against us, and was long in the coming, has now at length come upon us, and we are ready to sink under it. Remember what is past, consider and behold what is present, and let not all the trouble we are in seem little to thee, and not worth taking notice of," Neh. ix.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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