Lamentations 5:1

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!

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What is come upon us - literally, “what” has happened “to us:” our national disgrace.
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 a...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 w...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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, "Th...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 earn...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us ... behold our reproach - (...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual tha...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 a...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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, "t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Consider, and behold our reproach Which we suffer from the heathen nations. Our inheritance is turned to strangers Namely, to the Babylonians and...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 5 A humble prayer, presenting to the Lord their great misery, Lamentations 5:1-15 , confessing their sins, Lamentations 5...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 can...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 o...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 3:2 ; Jeremiah 15:15 ; Job 10:9 ; Job 7:7 ; Lamentations 1:20 ; Lamentations 2:15 ; Lamentations 2:20 ; Lamentations 3:19 ; Lamenta...

¹ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 5:1