Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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Compare
- BSB
- Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
- KJV
- Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- WEB
- Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
- ASV
- Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
- DARBY
- Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
- BLB
- Remember, O YHWH, what has happened to us! Look and see our disgrace!
- ÅB
- Kom i hu, Herre, det som har hendt oss, sku og se hvor vi blir hånet!
- OTB
- Husk, Herre, hva som har hendt oss; se og legg merke til vår vanære.
- B1930
- Kom i hu, Herre, det som har hendt oss, sku og se hvor vi blir hånet!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 44:13–16
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Read in contextPsalms 89:50–51
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
Read in contextLamentations 3:61
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Read in contextPsalms 79:12
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Read in contextJeremiah 15:15
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Read in contextNehemiah 4:4
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Read in contextPsalms 74:10–11
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Read in contextPsalms 123:3–4
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
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