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Lamentations 5

Introduction

1  A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.
Verse 1

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Remember
1:20, 2:20, 3:19, Nehemiah 1:8, Job 7:7, 10:9, Jeremiah 15:15, Habakkuk 3:2, Luke 23:42
behold
2:15, 3:61, Nehemiah 1:3, 4:4, Psalms 44:13-16, 74:10,11, 79:4,12, 89:50,51, Psalms 123:3,4
Verse 2

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Deuteronomy 28:30-68, Psalms 79:1,2, Isaiah 1:7, 5:17, 63:18, Jeremiah 6:12, Ezekiel 7:21,24, Zephaniah 1:13
Verse 3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 18:21, Hosea 14:3
Verse 4

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
have
Deuteronomy 28:48, Isaiah 3:1, Ezekiel 4:9-17
is sold
Heb. cometh for price.
Verse 5

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Our necks are under persecution
Heb. On our necks are we persecuted.
1:14, 4:19, Deuteronomy 28:48,65,66, Jeremiah 27:2,8,11,12, 28:14, Matthew 11:29, Acts 15:10
labour
Nehemiah 9:36,37
Verse 6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
given
Genesis 24:2, 2 Kings 10:15, Jeremiah 50:15, Ezekiel 17:18
to the Egyptians
Isaiah 30:1-6, 31:1-3, 57:9, Jeremiah 2:18,36, 44:12-14, Hosea 5:13, 7:11, 9:3, Hosea 12:1
Verse 7

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
fathers
Exodus 20:5, Jeremiah 16:12, 31:29, Ezekiel 18:2, Matthew 23:32-36
and are
Genesis 42:13,36, Job 7:8,21, Jeremiah 31:15, Zechariah 1:5
Verse 8

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Servants
Genesis 9:25, Deuteronomy 28:43, Nehemiah 2:19, 5:15, Proverbs 30:22
there
Job 5:4, 10:7, Psalms 7:2, 50:22, Isaiah 43:13, Hosea 2:10, Zechariah 11:6
Verse 9

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Judges 6:11, 2 Samuel 23:17, Jeremiah 40:9-12, 41:1-10,18, 42:14,16, Ezekiel 4:16,17, 12:18,19
Verse 10

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
skin
3:4, 4:8, Job 30:30, Psalms 119:83
terrible famine
or, terrors, or storms, of famine.
Verse 11

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Deuteronomy 28:30, Isaiah 13:16, Zechariah 14:2
Verse 12

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
2:10,20, 4:16, Isaiah 47:6, Jeremiah 39:6,7, 52:10,11,25-27
Verse 13

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
the young
Exodus 11:5, Judges 16:21, Job 31:10, Isaiah 47:2
fell
Exodus 1:11, 2:11, 23:5, Nehemiah 5:1-5, Isaiah 58:6, Matthew 23:4
Verse 14

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
elders
1:4,19, 2:10, Deuteronomy 16:18, Job 29:7-17, 30:1, Isaiah 3:2,3
the young
Job 30:31, Isaiah 24:7-11, Jeremiah 7:34, 16:9, 25:10, Ezekiel 26:13, Revelation 18:22
Verse 15

The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
our dance
Psalms 30:11, Amos 6:4-7, 8:10, James 4:9,10
Verse 16

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
The crown
1:1, Job 19:9, Psalms 89:39, Jeremiah 13:18, Ezekiel 21:26, Revelation 2:10, 3:11
is fallen from our head
Heb. of our head is fallen. woe.
1:8,18, 2:1, 4:13, Proverbs 14:34, Isaiah 3:9-11, Jeremiah 2:17,19, 4:18, Ezekiel 7:17-22, 22:12-16, 2 Peter 2:4-6
Verse 17

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
our heart
1:13,22, Leviticus 26:36, Isaiah 1:5, Jeremiah 8:18, 46:5, Ezekiel 21:7,15, Micah 6:13
our eyes
2:11, Deuteronomy 28:65, Job 17:7, Psalms 6:7, 31:9, 69:3, Isaiah 38:14
Verse 18

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
of the
2:8,9, 1 Kings 9:7,8, Psalms 74:2,3, Jeremiah 17:3, 26:9, 52:13, Micah 3:12
the foxes
Isaiah 32:13,14, Jeremiah 9:11
Verse 19

Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
remainest
Deuteronomy 33:27, Psalms 9:7, 10:16, 29:10, 90:2, 102:12,25-27, Habakkuk 1:12, 1 Timothy 1:17, 6:15,16, Hebrews 1:10-12, 13:8, Revelation 1:4,8,17,18
thy throne
Psalms 45:6, 145:13, 146:10, Daniel 2:44, 7:14,27, Hebrews 1:8,9
Verse 20

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
dost
Psalms 13:1, 44:24, 74:1, 77:7-10, 79:5, 85:5, 89:46, 94:3,4, Isaiah 64:9-12, Jeremiah 14:19-21
so long time
Heb. for length of days.
Verse 21

Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Turn
1 Kings 18:37, Psalms 80:3,7,19, 85:4, Jeremiah 31:18, 32:39,40, Ezekiel 11:19,20, Ezekiel 36:25-27,37, Habakkuk 3:2
renew
Jeremiah 31:4,23-25, 33:10,13, Zechariah 8:3-6, Malachi 3:4
Verse 22

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
But thou hast utterly rejected us
or, For wilt thou utterly reject us?
Psalms 44:9, 60:1,2, Jeremiah 15:1-5, Ezekiel 37:11, Hosea 1:6

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