“ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. ”
What is come upon us - literally, “what” has happened “to us:” our national disgrace.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: (a) consider, and behold our reproach. (a) This prayer as is thought, was made when some of the people were carried away captive, others such as the poorest r...
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
The acrostic gives way before the outburst of emotion in prayer. The only connection with it is the number of the verses (twenty-two, corresponding with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet).
This prayer ought to be read as unconnected with the Lamentations, for the initial letters of the verses are not written according to the order of the Alphabet; yet it is a complaint rather tha...
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Remember, O Lord - In the Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic, this is headed, "The prayer of Jeremiah." In my old MS. Bible: Here b...
Remember, O Lord— In the Vulgate, Arabic, and Syriac, this chapter is intitled, "The prayer of Jeremiah." It is rather to be understood as the earnest supplication of the whole body of the Jews in...
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us ... behold our reproach - ( Psalms 89:50-51 , "Remember, Lord, the reproach o...
Remember, O Lord ] Like the initial sentences of the other poems, the opening words strike the key of what follows. The poet is about to pray, so he secures first of all God's attention.
V. (1) Remember, O Lord. — The fact that the number of verses is, as in Lamentations 1:2 ; Lamentations 1:4 , the same as that of the Hebrew alphabet suggests the inference that this chapter a...
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1-10 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. In this Chapter the Prophet puts a close to his lamentations in prayer; and a most sweet and gracious prayer it is!
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us ,.... This chapter is called, in some Greek copies, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, "the prayer of Jeremiah". Cocceius interprets the wh...
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Ver. 1. Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us. ] This last chapter is a brief recapitulation a of what had been said i...
Consider, and behold our reproach Which we suffer from the heathen nations. Our inheritance is turned to strangers Namely, to the Babylonians and others, to whom our lands are given. We are orph...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 5 A humble prayer, presenting to the Lord their great misery, Lamentations 5:1-15 , confessing their sins, Lamentations 5:16-18 , imploring deliverance, Lamentations 5:...
Remember, O YHWH, what is come on us, Behold, and see our reproach. The prophet calls on YHWH to remember all that had come on them and to consider the reproach that they were under, something that...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:1 . Remember, O Jehovah, what has happened to us —an application not to one who had forgotten, but to One who could consider their affliction and pain with a...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us. An appeal for God’s compassion The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us, the evils which had befallen the Lord's congregation in the ruin of the entire nation; consider and behold our reproach, turning to their pitiable condition...
Habakkuk 3:2 ; Jeremiah 15:15 ; Job 10:9 ; Job 7:7 ; Lamentations 1:20 ; Lamentations 2:15 ; Lamentations 2:20 ; Lamentations 3:19 ; Lamentations 3:61 ; Luke 23:42 ; Nehemiah 1:3 ; Nehemi...