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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...
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WHAT IS COME UPON US - literally, “what” has happened “to us:”
our national disgrace....
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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ZION'S EARNEST PETITION FOR DELIVERANCE
This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The
tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of
vindictiveness. The poe...
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• 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...
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JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS
LAMENTATIONS
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 5
JEREMIAH IS PRAYING.
V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and
see our shame....
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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, thoug...
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זְכֹ֤ר יְהוָה֙ מֶֽה ־הָ֣יָה לָ֔נוּ
_הַבִּ֖יטָה_† וּ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT MISERY...
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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 u...
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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
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Lamentations 5:1 Remember H2142 (H8798) LORD H3068 Look H5027 (H8685)
behold H7200 (H8798) reproach H2781...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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 f...
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EXPOSITION
LAMENTATIONS 5:1
INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM.
LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
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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...
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Habakkuk 3:2; Jeremiah 15:15; Job 10:9; Job 7:7; Lamentations 1:20;...