--- title: "Lamentations 5 - Study King James Bible with calvins commentary on the bible" description: "Read Lamentations 5 with calvins commentary on the bible commentary. 1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orph" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/calvins-commentary-on-the-bible/lamentations/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/lamentations/5)[ Commentary](/study/lamentations/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/lamentations/5) Audio 1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers *are* as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.* 5 Our necks *are* under persecution: we labour, *and* have no rest.* 6 We have given the hand *to* the Egyptians, *and to* the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, *and are* not; and we have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants have ruled over us: *there is* none that doth deliver *us* out of their hand. 9 We gat our bread with *the peril of* our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.* 11 They ravished the women in Zion, *and* the maids in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. 16 The crown is fallen *from* our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!* 17 For this our heart is faint; for these *things* our eyes are dim. 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. 19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, *and* forsake us so long time?* 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.* [Lamentations 4](/study/lamentations/4) [Ezekiel 1](/study/ezekiel/1) ## Commentary To verse 1 This prayer ought to be read as unconnected with the Lamentations, for the initial letters of the verses are not written according to the order of the Alphabet; yet it is a complaint rather than a prayer; for Jeremiah mentions those things which had happened to the people in their extreme calamity in order to turn God to compassion and mercy. He says first, *Remember* what has happened to us; and then in the second part he explains himself, *Look and see our reproach* Now the words, though brief and concise, yet contain a useful doctrine — that God is pleased to bring help to the miserable when their evils come to an account before him, especially when they are unjustly oppressed. It is, indeed, certain that nothing is unknown to God, but this mode of speaking is according to the perceptions of men; for we think that God disregards our miseries, or we imagine that his back is turned to us when he does not immediately succor us. But as I have said, he is simply to be asked to look on our evils, for we know what he testifies of himself; so that as he claims to himself the office of helping the miserable and the unjustly oppressed, we ought to acquiesce in this consolation, that as soon as he is pleased to look on the evils we suffer, aid is at the same time prepared for us. There is mention especially made of reproach, that the indignity might move God the more: for it was for this end that he took the people under his protection, that they might be for his glory and honor, as Moses says. As, then, it was God’s will that the riches of his glory should appear in that people, nothing could have been more inconsistent that that instead of glory they should have nothing but disgrace and reproach. This, then, is the reason why the Prophet makes a special mention of the reproach of the people. 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