Lord, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced!
Parallel translations
- WEB Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
- KJV Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- BSB Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
- NKJV Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!
- NASB Remember, Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and see our disgrace!
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Quick answer
The final chapter opens with a prayer: 'Remember, Lord, and see our disgrace.'
Overview
Chapter 5 is a communal prayer asking God to take notice of His people's reproach and suffering. To ask God to 'remember' is to plead that He act in covenant faithfulness on their behalf. This appeal to a God who sees and remembers His people grounds hope in His character, fully revealed in Christ who remembers those who are His (Luke 23:42; Ps. 25:6-7).
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Cross-references · 19
- Ps 44:13–16You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
- Ps 89:50–51Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
- Jer 15:15Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
- Ps 79:12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
- Lam 2:15All that pass by clap their hands at you. 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’?”
- Lam 3:61You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,
- Neh 4:4“Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity;
- Ps 74:10–11How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
- Ps 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
- Ps 123:3–4Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
- Lam 3:19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Hab 3:2Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
- Neh 1:3They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
- Luke 23:42He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
- Lam 1:20“See, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword bereaves. At home it is like death.
- Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
- Neh 1:8“Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;
- Job 10:9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
- Lam 2:20“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their offspring, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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