Lamentations 5:1-11

1 recordare Domine quid acciderit nobis intuere et respice obprobrium nostrum

2 hereditas nostra versa est ad alienos domus nostrae ad extraneos

3 pupilli facti sumus absque patre matres nostrae quasi viduae

4 aquam nostram pecunia bibimus ligna nostra pretio conparavimus

5 cervicibus minabamur lassis non dabatur requies

6 Aegypto dedimus manum et Assyriis ut saturaremur pane

7 patres nostri peccaverunt et non sunt et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus

8 servi dominati sunt nostri non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum

9 in animabus nostris adferebamus panem nobis a facie gladii in deserto

10 pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est a facie tempestatum famis

11 mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt virgines in civitatibus Iuda

Lamentations 5:1-11 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.