Lamentations 5:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; consider and behold our disgrace.

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  • Ps 44:13-16 : 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are around us. 14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, 16 For the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger.
  • Lam 3:61 : 61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their schemes against me;
  • Hab 3:2 : 2 O LORD, I have heard Your speech, and was afraid; O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.
  • Luke 23:42 : 42 Then he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.
  • Neh 1:3 : 3 And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.
  • Neh 1:8 : 8 Remember, I beg You, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, If you transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
  • Neh 4:4 : 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them as prey in a land of captivity:
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Oh, remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall see good no more.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beseech You, that You have made me as the clay; and will You bring me into dust again?
  • Ps 74:10-11 : 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever? 11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Pluck it out of Your bosom.
  • Ps 79:4 : 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
  • Ps 79:12 : 12 And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 51 With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD, with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorn of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
  • Jer 15:15 : 15 O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
  • Lam 1:20 : 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
  • Lam 2:15 : 15 All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Lam 3:19 : 19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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  • Lam 5:2-3
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    80%

    2Our inheritance is given to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

    3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

  • 50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

  • 8O do not remember against us former iniquities; let Your tender mercies swiftly come to us, for we are brought very low.

  • 51We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces; for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

  • Lam 5:20-22
    3 verses
    77%

    20Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long?

    21Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old.

    22But You have utterly rejected us; You are exceedingly angry with us.

  • 3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

  • 15O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.

  • Jer 14:20-21
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    76%

    20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

    21Do not abhor us, for Your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; remember, do not break Your covenant with us.

  • Ps 44:24-25
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    24Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

    25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly clings to the earth.

  • Ps 44:16-17
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    75%

    16For the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger.

    17All this has come upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.

  • 18Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed Your name.

  • 4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

  • 1A Song of Ascents. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:

  • 11See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

  • Lam 5:16-17
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    74%

    16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

    17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

  • Dan 9:13-16
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    73%

    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

    15And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

    16O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I plead with You, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain: because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all around us.

  • 4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them as prey in a land of captivity:

  • 9Do not be very angry, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people.

  • 4Remember me, O LORD, with the favor you bear unto your people. O visit me with your salvation;

  • 12And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

  • Dan 9:7-8
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    73%

    7O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us belongs confusion of face, as it is this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You.

    8O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

  • Ps 25:6-7
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    72%

    6Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, for they have been from of old.

    7Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to Your mercy remember me, for Your goodness' sake, O LORD.

  • 5Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • 45You have made us like refuse and scorn among the people.

  • 13And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this;

  • 22Arise, O God, plead Your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.

  • 7Since the days of our fathers we have been in a great trespass to this day; and because of our iniquities, we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • 13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.

  • 13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are around us.

  • 20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

  • 9Her filthiness is in her skirts; she does not remember her last end; therefore she came down astonishingly: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

  • 11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider, for I have become vile.

  • 1O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You have been displeased; O turn to us again.

  • 12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

  • 8Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O you transgressors.

  • 20Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

  • 12Will you refrain yourself for these things, O LORD? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?

  • 6For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.