A Prayer for Restoration
Lamentations 5:1
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
- KJV
- Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- WEB
- Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
- ASV
- Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
- LSV
- Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, || Look attentively, and see our reproach.
- YLT
- Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
- DBY
- Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
- DRC
- Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
- GNV
- Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
- JPS
- Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.
- LXXE
- Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
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- Written (Ketiv): הַבֵּיט (“look”). Read aloud (Qere): הַבִּ֖יטָה (“look”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads הַבִּ֖יטָ; read aloud (Qere) reads הַבִּ֖יטָה (“look”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- זְכֹ֤ר יְהוָה֙ מֶֽה־הָ֣יָה לָ֔נוּ הביט וּרְאֵ֥ה אֶת־חֶרְפָּתֵֽנוּ׃Read aloud as (qere): הַבִּ֖יטָה
- LXX-Br
- Μνήσθητι Κύριε, ὅ, τι ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν· ἐπίβλεψον, καὶ ἴδε τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν ἡμῶν.
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Lamentations, Book ofPoetryPatriotismAffliction, Prayer underAcrosticNationPoetry, HebrewIntercessionWarAfflictions and Adversities
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 44:13–16You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples. All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame…
- Psalms 89:50–51Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people— how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
- Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
- Habakkuk 3:2O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!
- Lamentations 3:61O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
- Jeremiah 15:15You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.
- Psalms 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
- Psalms 74:10–11How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever? Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
- Psalms 123:3–4Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt. We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
- Nehemiah 4:4Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
- Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 1:20See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
- Nehemiah 1:8Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
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