Bible Chapter Summary
Lamentations 5 Summary
Prayer for Divine Remembrance and Restoration
The people call upon the Lord to remember their reproach: their inheritance turned to strangers, their houses to aliens, they are orphans and fatherless with mothers as widows. They have drunken their water for money, their wood is sold to them, and their necks are under persecution; they labour and have no rest, giving hand to Egyptians and Assyrians for bread. They bear their fathers' iniquities while servants rule over them, and none delivers them from their enemies' hand; their skin was black from terrible famine, women were ravished, and princes hanged up. Elders ceased from the gate, young men from their music; the crown fallen from their head, they plead with the Lord, whose throne remains forever, to turn them unto Him and renew their days as of old.
Key themes
Key verses
Lamentations 5:1
“Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.”
Lamentations 5:7
“Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.”
Lamentations 5:16
“The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!”
Lamentations 5:19
“Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.”
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