Lamentations 5:1-10

1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; look, and behold our reproach.

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3 We are orphans without father; our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5 Our necks are under persecution; we are become tired and have no rest.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned and are dead; and we have borne their chastisements.

8 Slaves have ruled over us: there was no one to deliver us out of their hand.

9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin became black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Lamentations 5:1-10 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.