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See how we have been disgraced!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/lamentations/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/lamentations/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/lamentations/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/lamentations/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/lamentations/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember, LORD, what has come upon us; Look, and see our disgrace!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/lamentations/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; Look, and see our reproach!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/lamentations/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; Look, and see our reproach!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/lamentations/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Remember, O Yahweh, what has happened to us; Look, and see our reproach!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/lamentations/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />O LORD, remember what has come upon us; Look, and see our reproach (national disgrace)!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/lamentations/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />LORD, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/lamentations/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yahweh, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/lamentations/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/lamentations/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Our LORD, don't forget how we have suffered and been disgraced. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/lamentations/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Remember, O what is LORD, come upon us: behold, and see our reproach.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/lamentations/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Take a look at our disgrace!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/lamentations/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look at us, and see our disgrace. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/lamentations/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/lamentations/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/lamentations/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/lamentations/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/lamentations/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/lamentations/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/lamentations/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, "" Look attentively, and see our reproach.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/lamentations/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/lamentations/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Remember, O Jehovah, what was to us: look and see our reproach.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/lamentations/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/lamentations/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/lamentations/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Remember, LORD, what has happened to us, pay attention, and see our disgrace: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/lamentations/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/lamentations/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />REMEMBER, O LORD, what has come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/lamentations/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Remember, LORD JEHOVAH, what happened to us! Look, and see our reproach!<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/lamentations/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; Behold, and see our reproach.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/lamentations/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/lamentations/5-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rKrWuOkEqzQ?start=1312" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/lamentations/5.htm">A Prayer for Restoration</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2142.htm" title="2142: zə·ḵōr (V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- Remember. A primitive root; properly, to mark, i.e. To remember; by implication, to mention; also to be male.">Remember,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">O LORD,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: meh- (Interrog) -- What? how? anything. ">what</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hā·yāh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">has happened</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·nū (Prep:: 1cp) -- ">to us.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5027.htm" title="5027: hab·bēṭ (V-Hifil-Imp-ms:: 3fs) -- To look. A primitive root; to scan, i.e. Look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care.">Look</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: ū·rə·’êh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">and see</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2781.htm" title="2781: ḥer·pā·ṯê·nū (N-fsc:: 1cp) -- A reproach. From charaph. contumely, disgrace, the pudenda.">our disgrace!</a> </span><span class="reftext">2</span>Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/137-1.htm">Psalm 137:1-4</a></span><br />By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. / There on the willows we hung our harps, / for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/1-3.htm">Nehemiah 1:3-4</a></span><br />And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.” / When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/14-19.htm">Jeremiah 14:19-21</a></span><br />Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror. / We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You. / For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/64-9.htm">Isaiah 64:9-12</a></span><br />Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people! / Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation. / Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/15-5.htm">Jeremiah 15:5-6</a></span><br />Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? / You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/25-8.htm">2 Kings 25:8-12</a></span><br />On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. / He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. / And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/52-12.htm">Jeremiah 52:12-16</a></span><br />On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. / He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. / And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-45.htm">Deuteronomy 28:45-48</a></span><br />All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you. / These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever. / Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/36-20.htm">Ezekiel 36:20-21</a></span><br />And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’ / But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/79-1.htm">Psalm 79:1-4</a></span><br />A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble. / They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. / They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/63-15.htm">Isaiah 63:15-19</a></span><br />Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained. / Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name. / Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/30-12.htm">Jeremiah 30:12-15</a></span><br />For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous. / There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you. / All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-17.htm">2 Chronicles 36:17-21</a></span><br />So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, / who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials. / Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/1-8.htm">Joel 1:8-12</a></span><br />Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth. / Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD. / The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37-39</a></span><br />O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. / For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.</p><p class="hdg">remember</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/1-20.htm">Lamentations 1:20</a></b></br> Behold, O LORD; for I <i>am</i> in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home <i>there is</i> as death.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/2-20.htm">Lamentations 2:20</a></b></br> Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, <i>and</i> children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/3-19.htm">Lamentations 3:19</a></b></br> Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.</p><p class="hdg">behold</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/2-15.htm">Lamentations 2:15</a></b></br> All that pass by clap <i>their</i> hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, <i>saying, Is</i> this the city that <i>men</i> call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/3-61.htm">Lamentations 3:61</a></b></br> Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, <i>and</i> all their imaginations against me;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/1-3.htm">Nehemiah 1:3</a></b></br> And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province <i>are</i> in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also <i>is</i> broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/lamentations/3-63.htm">Attentively</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-47.htm">Befallen</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-20.htm">Consider</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-30.htm">Disgrace</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-21.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-63.htm">Note</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-20.htm">Remember</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-61.htm">Reproach</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/15-5.htm">Attentively</a> <a href="/matthew/8-33.htm">Befallen</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-3.htm">Consider</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-52.htm">Disgrace</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-7.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-21.htm">Note</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-9.htm">Remember</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-14.htm">Reproach</a><div class="vheading2">Lamentations 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/lamentations/5-1.htm">A complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/lamentations/5.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/lamentations/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/lamentations/5.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us.</b><br>This plea for remembrance is a common theme in the Old Testament, where the people of Israel often call upon God to remember His covenant with them (<a href="/exodus/2-24.htm">Exodus 2:24</a>, <a href="/psalms/106-45.htm">Psalm 106:45</a>). The use of "remember" here is not suggesting that God forgets, but rather it is a call for God to act on behalf of His people. The historical context is the aftermath of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC, a time of immense suffering and loss for the Israelites. This phrase reflects the communal lament and the desire for divine intervention. Theologically, it underscores the belief in God's sovereignty and His ability to restore and redeem His people.<p><b>Look and see our disgrace!</b><br>The call for God to "look and see" is an appeal for divine attention and compassion. This reflects the deep sense of shame and humiliation experienced by the Israelites due to their defeat and exile. In the cultural context of the ancient Near East, disgrace was not only a personal experience but also a communal one, affecting the entire nation. The phrase echoes similar cries found in other lament psalms (<a href="/psalms/25-18.htm">Psalm 25:18</a>, <a href="/psalms/44-24.htm">Psalm 44:24</a>). Theologically, it highlights the human condition of sin and the resulting separation from God, pointing to the need for repentance and restoration. This can also be seen as a type of Christ, who bore the ultimate disgrace on the cross for the redemption of humanity (<a href="/hebrews/12-2.htm">Hebrews 12:2</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>- Traditionally attributed as the author of Lamentations, Jeremiah is known as the "weeping prophet." He laments the destruction of Jerusalem and the suffering of his people.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>- The city that has been destroyed by the Babylonians, leading to the lament and mourning expressed in this book.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a></b><br>- The people of God who are experiencing the consequences of their disobedience and are now in exile.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_babylonian_exile.htm">The Babylonian Exile</a></b><br>- The event that led to the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of the Israelites, serving as the backdrop for the lament.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>- The covenant God of Israel, whom the people are calling upon to remember their plight and show mercy.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_remembrance.htm">The Importance of Remembrance</a></b><br>Just as the Israelites ask God to remember their plight, we are reminded to bring our struggles before God, trusting in His faithfulness and mercy.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/a/acknowledging_our_disgrace.htm">Acknowledging Our Disgrace</a></b><br>The verse highlights the importance of acknowledging our sins and the consequences they bring. True repentance involves recognizing our failures and seeking God's forgiveness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_in_times_of_trouble.htm">God's Faithfulness in Times of Trouble</a></b><br>Despite the dire circumstances, the call to God in this verse reflects a belief in His faithfulness. We can trust that God sees our suffering and will act according to His perfect will.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_lament_in_spiritual_life.htm">The Role of Lament in Spiritual Life</a></b><br>Lamentations teaches us that it is appropriate to express grief and sorrow to God. Lament is a form of worship that acknowledges God's sovereignty even in our pain.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_redemption.htm">Hope in God's Redemption</a></b><br>While the verse speaks of disgrace, it also implies hope for redemption. We are encouraged to look forward to God's restoration and healing in our lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_lamentations_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Lamentations 5</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_god_overstepping_boundaries.htm">Is God overstepping boundaries?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_a_kind_god_allow_suffering.htm">How can a compassionate God allow such severe suffering as described in Lamentations 1:5?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_risk_lives_for_saul's_body.htm">Why would the men of Jabesh-gilead risk their lives to retrieve Saul's body if he was seen as a failed king (1 Samuel 31:11-13)?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_can_god_be_an_'enemy'_yet_unchanging.htm">Lamentations 2:5 - In what sense can God become an 'enemy' to those He once favored, and does this contradict other biblical portrayals of His unchanging nature?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/lamentations/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>V.</span><p>(1) <span class= "bld">Remember, O Lord.</span>--The fact that the number of verses is, as in Lamentations 1, 2, 4, the same as that of the Hebrew alphabet suggests the inference that this chapter also, though not actually alphabetic, was intended to have been so, and that we have the last of the five elegies in a half-finished state. It would seem as if Jeremiah first wrote freely what was in his mind, and then set to work as an artist to bring it under the alphabetic scheme. This chapter, it may be stated, has more the character of a prayer than any other, and the prayer begins with recapitulating the woes of Judah as a ground for the compassion of Jehovah.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/lamentations/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 1-18.</span> - INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/lamentations/5-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Remember,</span><br /><span class="heb">זְכֹ֤ר</span> <span class="translit">(zə·ḵōr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2142.htm">Strong's 2142: </a> </span><span class="str2">To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O LORD,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָה֙</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">what</span><br /><span class="heb">מֶֽה־</span> <span class="translit">(meh-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Interrogative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4100.htm">Strong's 4100: </a> </span><span class="str2">What?, what!, indefinitely what</span><br /><br /><span class="word">has happened to us.</span><br /><span class="heb">הָ֣יָה</span> <span class="translit">(hā·yāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Look</span><br /><span class="heb">הַבִּ֖יטָה</span> <span class="translit">(hab·bî·ṭāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5027.htm">Strong's 5027: </a> </span><span class="str2">To scan, look intently at, to regard</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and see</span><br /><span class="heb">וּרְאֵ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(ū·rə·’êh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> </span><span class="str2">To see</span><br /><br /><span class="word">our disgrace!</span><br /><span class="heb">חֶרְפָּתֵֽנוּ׃</span> <span class="translit">(ḥer·pā·ṯê·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2781.htm">Strong's 2781: </a> </span><span class="str2">Contumely, disgrace, the pudenda</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/lamentations/5-1.htm">OT Prophets: Lamentations 5:1 Remember Yahweh what has come on us: (Lam. 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