Lamentations 5:1

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

"Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach." - Lamentations 5:1
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What does Lamentations 5:1 mean?

Lamentations 5:1 in the King James Version reads: "Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach." The book of Lamentations is a collection of five poems or laments grieving over the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian captivity of the…

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Finding Hope in Despair: A Reflection on Lamentations 5:1

As we gather together in prayer and reflection, our hearts naturally gravitate towards the deep sorrows echoed in the poignant words of Lamentations 5:1: "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach." This lament, infused with pain and desperation…

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A Cry for Remembrance and Restoration

O Eternal Father, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, the One who sits enthroned in mercy and grace, we come before You today with heavy hearts, echoing the sentiments of the prophet in Lamentations 5:1, where he cries out, "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us…

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Lamentations 5:1 - "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
Lamentations 1:5 Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.
Lamentations 1:5 Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.
Lamentations 5:5 - "Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest."
Amos 5:1 - "Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel."
Lamentations 1:5 - "Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy."
Lamentations 5:11 - "They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah."
Lamentations 5:3 - "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Lamentations 5:2 - "Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."
Lamentations 5:17 - "For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim."
Lamentations 5:7 - "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities."
Lamentations 5:15 - "The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."
Lamentations 5:18 - "Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it."
Lamentations 5:6 - "We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."
Lamentations 5:10 - "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine."
Lamentations 5:13 - "They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood."
Lamentations 5:12 - "Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured."
Lamentations 3:5 - "He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."
Lamentations 5:14 - "The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick."
Lamentations 5:9 - "We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness."
Lamentations 5:19 – "You, Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation."
Lamentations 5:19 - "Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation."
Lamentations 2:1
Lamentations 2:1
Lamentations 2:1
Lamentations 3:1-18
"Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest." - Lamentations 5:5
Lamentations 5:8 - "Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand."
Lamentations 5:22 - "But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us."