Lamentations 5:1-6

1 Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!

2 Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners.

3 We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows.

4 We pay for the water we drink, And our wood comes at a price.

5 They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest.

6 We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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.