Lamentations 5:1

“Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us, etc.] This chapter is called, in some Greek copies, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, “the prayer of Jeremiah”. Cocceius interprets the whole of the state of the Christian church after the last destruction of Jerusalem; and of what happened to the disciples of Christ in the first times of the Gospel; and of what Christians have endured under antichrist down to the present times: but it is best to understand it of the Jews in Babylon; representing their sorrowful case, as represented by the prophet; entreating that the Lord would remember the affliction they were under, and deliver them out of it, that which he had determined should…”

“EPIPHONEMA, OR A CLOSING RECAPITULATION OF THE CALAMITIES TREATED IN THE PREVIOUS ELEGIES. (Lam. 5:1-22) (Psa 89:50-51).”

“What is come upon us - literally, “what” has happened “to us:” our national disgrace. return to 'Top of Page'”

“5:1-22 This chapter is a heartfelt prayer for restoration (cp. Dan 9:4-19).”

“Remember: Lam 1:20, Lam 2:20, Lam 3:19; Neh 1:8; Job 7:7, Job 10:9; Jer 15:15; Hab 3:2; Luk 23:42 behold: Lam 2:15, Lam 3:61; Neh 1:3, Neh 4:4; Psa 44:13-16, Psa 74:10, Psa 74:11, Psa 79:4, Psa 79:12, Psa 89:50, Psa 89:51; Psa 123:3, Psa 123:4 Lamentations 5:2”

“Supplication and statement regarding the distress. The quest made in Lam 5:1 refers to the oppression depicted in what follows. The words, "Remember, O Lord, what hath happened (i.e., befallen) us," are more fully explained in the second member, "Look and behold our disgrace." It is quite arbitrary in Thenius to refer the first member to the past, the second to the present, described in what follows, Lam 5:12-16. The Qeri הבּיטה is an unnecessary alteration, after Lam 1:11; Lam 3:63. \- With Lam 5:2 begins the description of the disgrace that has befallen them. This consists, first of all, in the fact that their inheritance has become the possession of strangers. Rosenm׬ller rightly explains…”