Lamentations 5:1-7

1 "Remember, God, all we've been through. Study our plight, the black mark we've made in history.

2 Our precious land has been given to outsiders, our homes to strangers.

3 Orphans we are, not a father in sight, and our mothers no better than widows.

4 We have to pay to drink our own water. Even our firewood comes at a price.

5 We're nothing but slaves, bullied and bowed, worn out and without any rest.

6 We sold ourselves to Assyria and Egypt just to get something to eat.

7 Our parents sinned and are no more, and now we're paying for the wrongs they did.

Lamentations 5:1-7 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.