Lamentations 5:1
What meaning of the lamentations 5:1 in the Bible?
What does Lamentations 5:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
What does Lamentations 5:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
CHAPTER V _This chapter is, as it were, an_ epiphonema, _or conclusion to_ _the four preceding, representing the nation as groaning under_ _their calamities, and humbly supplicating the Divine favo...
WHAT IS COME UPON US - literally, “what” has happened “to us:” our national disgrace....
CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of confession and of hope, which reaches t...
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 may...
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 final poem, although its _vv_. are equal in number with the letters of the Heb. alphabet, yet does not, like its predecessors, adhere to any rule as to the initial letters. "Rhyme takes the place...
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 the...
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX A PENITENT NATION Lamentations 5:1-22 The form of the fifth poem differs in at least two respects from the four which precede it. First, this poem is not in the acrostic form. But...
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. REMEMBER, O LORD, WHAT IS COME UPON US ... BEHOLD OUR REPROACH - (, "Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do...
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....
• In any kind of trouble, it is always right to pray. See James 5:13. • There is a right way to receive what God sends. See Nehemiah 9:32-37. • God loves us even when we have *sinned. So, when we su...
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 also, thou...
זְכֹ֤ר יְהוָה֙ מֶֽה ־הָ֣יָה לָ֔נוּ _הַבִּ֖יטָה_† וּ רְאֵ֥ה אֶת ־חֶרְפָּתֵֽנוּ׃...
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1 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 that have...
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 o...
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 re...
_The prayer, &c. This title is not in Hebrew, Septuagint, &c. Theodoret has passed over the chapter, as if he doubted of its authenticity. It does not follow the order of Hebrew letters like the prece...
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!...
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 than a pra...
The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God, as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...
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 whole...
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 in...
_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 orpha...
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 wit...
1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient un...
LAMENTATIONS CHAPTER 5 A humble prayer, presenting to the Lord their great misery, LAMENTATIONS 5:1, confessing their sins, LAMENTATIONS 5:16, imploring deliverance, LAMENTATIONS 5:19. It hath been be...
Lamentations 5:1 Remember H2142 (H8798) LORD H3068 Look H5027 (H8685) behold H7200 (H8798) reproach H2781 Remember - Lamentations 1:20, Lamentations 2:20, Lamentations 3:19; Nehemiah 1:8;...
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...
CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity. Supplications for the return of mercy. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God is th...
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. The insu...
_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 God...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for restoration. It includes an opening petition (v. Lamentations 5:1), a descript...
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 view to...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2 OUR INHERITANCE. The land had been "given" to Abraham (Genesis 13:1; Genesis 17:8), and was consequen...
Fifth lamentation: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...
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;...