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Lamentations 5

Lam. 5:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Remember
zakar (Hebrew #2142)
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; also (as denominative from 2145) to be male
KJV usage: X burn (incense), X earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, X still, think on, X well.
Pronounce: zaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
q, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, what is come upon us: consider
nabat (Hebrew #5027)
to scan, i.e. look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
KJV usage: (cause to) behold, consider, look (down), regard, have respect, see.
Pronounce: naw-bat'
Origin: a primitive root
, and behold
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
our reproach
cherpah (Hebrew #2781)
contumely, disgrace, the pudenda
KJV usage: rebuke, reproach(-fully), shame.
Pronounce: kher-paw'
Origin: from 2778
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-22:  A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.
Remember.
behold.
Lam. 2:15• 15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? (Lam. 2:15)
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Lam. 3:61• 61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me; (Lam. 3:61)
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Neh. 1:3• 3And they said to me, Those who remain, that are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and reproach; and the wall of Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates are burned with fire. (Neh. 1:3)
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Neh. 4:4• 4Hear, our God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in a land of captivity! (Neh. 4:4)
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Psa. 44:13‑16• 13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;
14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
15All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.
(Psa. 44:13‑16)
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Psa. 74:10‑11• 10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom: consume them.
(Psa. 74:10‑11)
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Psa. 79:4,12• 4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.
12And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
(Psa. 79:4,12)
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Psa. 89:50‑51• 50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants--that I bear in my bosom that of all the mighty peoples--
51Wherewith thine enemies, O Jehovah, have reproached, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
(Psa. 89:50‑51)
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Psa. 123:3‑4• 3Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
(Psa. 123:3‑4)
 The last chapter differs from all before in that the alphabetic series drops. (Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 5 by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.