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Lamentations 5:1

in Lamentations 5

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in Lamentations 5

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

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.

This site's exposition

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us

on Lamentations 5:1-2

Lamentations 5 closes the book as a plain communal prayer of twenty-two verses, the length of the Hebrew alphabet kept but the letter-by-letter form abandoned, grief finally too tired for the acrostic discipline the first four chapters kept, as the bench reads the loosening. The poem opens as direct address rather than description, remember, O Lord, what is come upon us, consider and behold our reproach, and moves straight into loss: the inheritance is turned to strangers and the houses to aliens, foreign hands now holding what the covenant had given.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • זְכֹ֤רremember

    zekhorH2142 →230 times

  • יְהוָה֙O Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • מֶֽה־what?

    meh-H4100 →752 times

  • הָ֣יָהhas it happened

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • לָ֔נוּto us

    lanu

  • הַבִּ֖יטָהlook !

    habeithH5027 →69 times

  • וּרְאֵ֥הand see

    ureehH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • חֶרְפָּתֵֽנוּ׃reproach our

    cherpatenuH2781 →73 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 44:13–16You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.5 worksPsalms 119:153Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.5 worksPsalms 132:1O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,5 worksPsalms 89:50–51Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—4 worksLamentations 3:61O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—4 worksLamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 15:15You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.3 worksHabakkuk 3:2O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!3 worksPsalms 123:3–4Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.3 worksPsalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.3 worksPsalms 74:10–11How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?3 worksPsalms 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.3 worksNehemiah 4:4Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.3 worksLamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”3 worksActs 4:29And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,3 worksLamentations 3:50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.3 worksPsalms 13:3Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,3 worksLamentations 1:20See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Habakkuk 3:2

    O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!

    it leads to

    • Psalms 85:6

      Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?

    • Psalms 90:13–17

      Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

    • Hosea 6:2–3

      After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

    • Lamentations 3:32

      Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

    • Isaiah 51:9–11

      Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 15:15

    You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 12:3

      But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

    • Psalms 69:7–9

      For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

    • Luke 21:17

      And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.

Where this verse is studied

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About Lamentations

People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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