And they said unto 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 the gates thereof are burned with fire.
Lamentations 5:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Remember, O what is LORD, come upon us: behold, and see our reproach. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: Consider, and behold our reproach. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O Lord, [earnestly] remember what has come upon us! Look down and see our reproach (our national disgrace)! American Standard Version (1901) Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. Common English Bible LORD, consider what has become of us; take notice of our disgrace. Look at it! Catholic Public Domain Version Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. |
And they said unto 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 the gates thereof are burned with fire.
Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up to spoiling in a land of captivity:
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, And that foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are the LORD'S remembrancers, take ye no rest,
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.
We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to refresh the soul: see, O LORD, and behold; for I am become vile.
Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress; my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: behold, O LORD, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
See, O LORD, and behold, to whom thou hast done thus! shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their devices against me;
O LORD, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.