King James Version
Lamentations 5:1 in the King James Version says “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.”
Lamentations 5:1 · KJV
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
We are orphans and fatherless , our mothers are as widows.
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“Remember”
H2142properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e., to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“what is come upon us consider”
H5027to scan, i.e., look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
“and behold”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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