1 Remember, H2142 O LORD, H3068 what is come upon us: consider, H5027 and behold H7200 our reproach. H2781
2 Our inheritance H5159 is turned H2015 to strangers, H2114 our houses H1004 to aliens. H5237
3 We are orphans H3490 and fatherless, H369 H1 our mothers H517 are as widows. H490
4 We have drunken H8354 our water H4325 for money; H3701 our wood H6086 is sold H935 H4242 unto us.
5 Our necks H6677 are under persecution: H7291 we labour, H3021 and have no rest. H5117
6 We have given H5414 the hand H3027 to the Egyptians, H4714 and to the Assyrians, H804 to be satisfied H7646 with bread. H3899
7 Our fathers H1 have sinned, H2398 and are not; H369 and we have borne H5445 their iniquities. H5771
8 Servants H5650 have ruled H4910 over us: there is none that doth deliver H6561 us out of their hand. H3027
9 We gat H935 our bread H3899 with the peril of our lives H5315 because H6440 of the sword H2719 of the wilderness. H4057
10 Our skin H5785 was black H3648 like an oven H8574 because H6440 of the terrible H2152 famine. H7458
11 They ravished H6031 the women H802 in Zion, H6726 and the maids H1330 in the cities H5892 of Judah. H3063
12 Princes H8269 are hanged up H8518 by their hand: H3027 the faces H6440 of elders H2205 were not honoured. H1921
13 They took H5375 the young men H970 to grind, H2911 and the children H5288 fell H3782 under the wood. H6086
14 The elders H2205 have ceased H7673 from the gate, H8179 the young men H970 from their musick. H5058
15 The joy H4885 of our heart H3820 is ceased; H7673 our dance H4234 is turned H2015 into mourning. H60
16 The crown H5850 is fallen H5307 from our head: H7218 woe H188 unto us, that we have sinned! H2398
17 For this our heart H3820 is faint; H1739 for these things our eyes H5869 are dim. H2821
18 Because of the mountain H2022 of Zion, H6726 which is desolate, H8074 the foxes H7776 walk H1980 upon it.
19 Thou, O LORD, H3068 remainest H3427 for ever; H5769 thy throne H3678 from generation H1755 to generation. H1755
20 Wherefore dost thou forget H7911 us for ever, H5331 and forsake H5800 us so long H753 time? H3117
21 Turn H7725 thou us unto thee, O LORD, H3068 and we shall be turned; H7725 renew H2318 our days H3117 as of old. H6924
22 But thou hast utterly H3988 rejected H3988 us; thou art very H3966 wroth H7107 against us.
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Commentary on Lamentations 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
This chapter, though it has the same number of verses with the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, is not alphabetical, as they were, but the scope of it is the same with that of all the foregoing elegies. We have in it,
Some ancient versions call this chapter, "The Prayer of Jeremiah.'
Lam 5:1-16
Is any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease. They complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt: "Remember what has come upon us, v. 1. 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. 9:32. Note, As it is a great comfort to us, so it ought to be a sufficient one, in our troubles, that God sees, and considers, and remembers, all that has come upon us; and in our prayers we need only to recommend our case to his gracious and compassionate consideration. The one word in which all their grievances are summer up is reproach: Consider, and behold our reproach. The troubles they were in compared with their former dignity and plenty, were a greater reproach to them than they would have been to any other people, especially considering their relation to God and dependence upon him, and his former appearances for them; and therefore this they complain of very sensibly, because, as it was a reproach, it reflected upon the name and honour of that God who had owned them for his people. And what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
Lam 5:17-22
Here,