Lamentations 5:1

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 5:1

The acrostic gives way before the outburst of emotion in prayer. The only connection with it is the number of the verses (twenty-two, corresponding with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Lamentations 5:1

A Final Plea for God's RemembranceMany scholars have mentioned the differences of this chapter from the preceding four. Although it has exactly twenty two verses in the same pattern as the others, it is not an acrostic. Furthermore, it is not primarily a dirge, but a national prayer, most probably written by Jeremiah upon behalf of the beleaguered people of God. In its conclusion, it rises above all the sorrows in the magnificent appeal to Him whose throne is forever and ever. The final appeal... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 5:1

Lamentations 5:1. Remember, O Lord— In the Vulgate, Arabic, and Syriac, this chapter is intitled, "The prayer of Jeremiah." It is rather to be understood as the earnest supplication of the whole body of the Jews in their captivity. See the introductory note to this book. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 5:1

1. (Psalms 89:50; Psalms 89:51). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 5:1

Jeremiah called on Yahweh to remember the calamity that had befallen His people, and to consider the reproach in which they now lived (cf. Lamentations 3:34-36). The humbled condition of the Judahites reflected poorly on the Lord, because the pagans would have concluded that He was unable to keep His people strong and free. Jeremiah implied that if Yahweh remembered His people, He would act to deliver them (cf. Exodus 2:24-25; Exodus 3:7-8). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 5:1-18

A. A plea for remembrance 5:1-18 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 5:1-22

Zion’s earnest Petition for DeliveranceThis final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The poet, speaking for the people, ’will have God know everything.’ Though divided into 22 vv., it is not an acrostic. Rhyme takes the place of the alphabetical structure, the poem having not less than 45 words ending in the sound u: cp. Psalms 124. Like Lamentations 4, each v. is composed of two members... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 5:1

V.(1) Remember, O Lord.—The fact that the number of verses is, as in Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:4, the same as that of the Hebrew alphabet suggests the inference that this chapter also, though not actually alphabetic, was intended to have been so, and that we have the last of the five elegies in a half-finished state. It would seem as if Jeremiah first wrote freely what was in his mind, and then set to work as an artist to bring it under the alphabetic scheme. This chapter, it may be... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Lamentations 5:1-10

AN APPEAL FOR GOD’S COMPASSIONLamentations 5:1-10 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures that have been put forth to account for this change of style: as that the crescendo movement which reached its climax in the third elegy was followed by a decrescendo movement, the conclusion of which became more prosaic: that the feelings of the poet having been calmed down during the composition of the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Lamentations 5:1-22

CHAPTER 5 The Prayer of Hope The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of confession and of hope, which reaches the heart of the God of Israel. The prophet, in behalf of the nation, pours out his confession: “The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us that we have sinned.” And there is hope in the Lord who remaineth, whose throne is from generation to generation. The prayer, “Turn Thou us unto Thee, O... read more

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