Lamentations 5:1 (DBY)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.

Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lamentations 5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "remember", "jehovah", "come", "upon", "consider", and "reproach". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "remember" and "jehovah", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "Our inheritance is turned to strangers our...", so "remember" and "jehovah" should be read forward into that movement. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "remember" and "jehovah" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.