Lamentations 5:1

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The People of Jerusalem Pray: O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

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  • Ps 44:13-16 : 13 You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. 14 You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt. 15 All day long I feel humiliated and am overwhelmed with shame, 16 before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me.
  • Lam 3:61 : 61 ש(Sin/Shin) You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me.
  • Hab 3:2 : 2 LORD, I have heard the report of what you did; I am awed, LORD, by what you accomplished. In our time repeat those deeds; in our time reveal them again. But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy!
  • Luke 23:42 : 42 Then he said,“Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.”
  • Neh 1:3 : 3 They said to me,“The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!”
  • Neh 1:8 : 8 Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses:‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.
  • Neh 4:4 : 4 Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
  • Ps 74:10-11 : 10 How long, O God, will the adversary hurl insults? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever? 11 Why do you remain inactive? Intervene and destroy him!
  • Ps 79:4 : 4 We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.
  • Ps 79:12 : 12 Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people! 51 Your enemies, O LORD, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some. 4 We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.
  • Jer 15:15 : 15 I said,“LORD, you know how I suffer. Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.
  • Lam 1:20 : 20 ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.
  • Lam 2:15 : 15 ס(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem.“Ha! Is this the city they called‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?”
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 ר(Resh)Jerusalem Speaks: Look, O LORD! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
  • Lam 3:19 : 19 ז(Zayin) Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 5:2-3
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    2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

    3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

  • Ps 89:50
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    50Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!

  • Ps 79:8
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    8Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!

  • Jer 51:51
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    51‘We are ashamed because we have been insulted. Our faces show our disgrace. For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the LORD’s temple.’

  • Lam 5:20-22
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    20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

    21Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,

    22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.

  • Ps 123:3
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    3Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.

  • Jer 15:15
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    15I said,“LORD, you know how I suffer. Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.

  • Jer 14:20-21
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    20LORD, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.

    21For the honor of your name, do not treat Jerusalem with contempt. Do not treat with disdain the place where your glorious throne sits. Be mindful of your covenant with us. Do not break it!

  • Ps 44:24-25
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    24Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?

    25For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.

  • Ps 44:16-17
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    16before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me.

    17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.

  • Ps 74:18
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    18Remember how the enemy hurls insults, O LORD, and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name!

  • Ps 79:4
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    4We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

  • Ps 132:1
    74%

    1A song of ascents. O LORD, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort,

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

  • Lam 5:16-17
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    16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

    17Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.

  • Dan 9:13-16
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    13Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.

    14The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.

    15“Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day– we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

    16O Lord, according to all your justice, please turn your raging anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.

  • Neh 4:4
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    4Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

  • Isa 64:9
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    9LORD, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!

  • Ps 106:4
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    4Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,

  • Ps 79:12
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    12Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

  • Dan 9:7-8
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    7“You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day– the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

    8O LORD, we have been humiliated– our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors– because we have sinned against you.

  • Ps 25:6-7
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    6Remember your compassionate and faithful deeds, O LORD, for you have always acted in this manner.

    7Do not hold against me the sins of my youth or my rebellious acts! Because you are faithful to me, extend to me your favor, O LORD!

  • Hag 1:5
    72%

    5Here then, this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘Think carefully about what you are doing.

  • Lam 3:45
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    45You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.

  • Ezra 9:13
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    13“Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.

  • Ps 74:22
    72%

    22Rise up, O God! Defend your honor! Remember how fools insult you all day long!

  • Ezra 9:7
    72%

    7From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment– right up to the present time.

  • Ps 90:13
    72%

    13Turn back toward us, O LORD! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

  • Ps 44:13
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    13You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

  • Ps 44:20
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    20If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

  • Lam 1:9
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    9ט(Tet) Her menstrual flow has soiled her clothing; she did not consider the consequences of her sin. Her demise was astonishing, and there was no one to comfort her. She cried,“Look, O LORD, on my affliction because my enemy boasts!”

  • Lam 1:11
    72%

    11כ(Kaf) All her people groaned as they searched for a morsel of bread. They exchanged their valuables for just enough food to stay alive. Jerusalem Speaks:“Look, O LORD! Consider that I have become worthless!”

  • Ps 60:1
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    1For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a prayer of David written to instruct others. It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down 12,000Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!

  • Isa 59:12
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    12For you are aware of our many rebellious deeds, and our sins testify against us; indeed, we are aware of our rebellious deeds; we know our sins all too well.

  • Isa 46:8
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    8Remember this, so you can be brave! Think about it, you rebels!

  • Jer 5:20
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    20“Proclaim this message among the descendants of Jacob. Make it known throughout Judah.

  • Isa 64:12
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    12In light of all this, how can you still hold back, LORD? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the LORD our God and abandoned him! They turned away from the LORD’s dwelling place and rejected him.