Lamentations 5:1-6

A Request for Mercy

1 Remember, O Yahweh, what has become of us; take note, and see our disgrace!
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses, to foreigners.
3 We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows.
4 {We pay for water with money}, our wood comes [to us] at a price.
5 We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.
6 We have made a deal with Egypt [and] Assyria to be satisfied [with] food.

Lamentations 5:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 5

In this chapter are reckoned up the various calamities and distresses of the Jews in Babylon, which the Lord is desired to remember and consider, La 5:1-16; their great concern for the desolation of the temple in particular is expressed, La 5:17,18; and the chapter is concluded with a prayer that God would show favour to them, and turn them to him, and renew their prosperity as of old, though he had rejected them, and been wroth with them, La 5:19-22.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Literally "we drink our water by money"
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