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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Lamentations 5

Chapter 5

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Remember

1:20 2:20 3:19 Nehemiah 1:8 Job 7:7 10:9 Jeremiah 15:15 Habakkuk 3:2 Luke 23:42

behold

2:15 3:61 Nehemiah 1:3 4:4 Psalms 44:13-16 74:10,11 79:4,12 89:50,51 Psalms 123:3,4

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Deuteronomy 28:30-68 Psalms 79:1,2 Isaiah 1:7 5:17 63:18 Jeremiah 6:12 Ezekiel 7:21,24 Zephaniah 1:13

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Exodus 22:24 Jeremiah 18:21 Hosea 14:3

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

have

Deuteronomy 28:48 Isaiah 3:1 Ezekiel 4:9-17

is sold

Heb. cometh for price.

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Our necks are under persecution

Heb. On our necks are we persecuted.

1:14 4:19 Deuteronomy 28:48,65,66 Jeremiah 27:2,8,11,12 28:14 Matthew 11:29 Acts 15:10

labour

Nehemiah 9:36,37

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

given

Genesis 24:2 2 Kings 10:15 Jeremiah 50:15 Ezekiel 17:18

to the Egyptians

Isaiah 30:1-6 31:1-3 57:9 Jeremiah 2:18,36 44:12-14 Hosea 5:13 7:11 9:3 Hosea 12:1

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

fathers

Exodus 20:5 Jeremiah 16:12 31:29 Ezekiel 18:2 Matthew 23:32-36

and are

Genesis 42:13,36 Job 7:8,21 Jeremiah 31:15 Zechariah 1:5

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Servants

Genesis 9:25 Deuteronomy 28:43 Nehemiah 2:19 5:15 Proverbs 30:22

there

Job 5:4 10:7 Psalms 7:2 50:22 Isaiah 43:13 Hosea 2:10 Zechariah 11:6

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Judges 6:11 2 Samuel 23:17 Jeremiah 40:9-12 41:1-10,18 42:14,16 Ezekiel 4:16,17 12:18,19

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

skin

3:4 4:8 Job 30:30 Psalms 119:83

terrible famine

or, terrors, or storms, of famine.

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Deuteronomy 28:30 Isaiah 13:16 Zechariah 14:2

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

2:10,20 4:16 Isaiah 47:6 Jeremiah 39:6,7 52:10,11,25-27

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

the young

Exodus 11:5 Judges 16:21 Job 31:10 Isaiah 47:2

fell

Exodus 1:11 2:11 23:5 Nehemiah 5:1-5 Isaiah 58:6 Matthew 23:4

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

elders

1:4,19 2:10 Deuteronomy 16:18 Job 29:7-17 30:1 Isaiah 3:2,3

the young

Job 30:31 Isaiah 24:7-11 Jeremiah 7:34 16:9 25:10 Ezekiel 26:13 Revelation 18:22

The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

our dance

Psalms 30:11 Amos 6:4-7 8:10 James 4:9,10

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

The crown

1:1 Job 19:9 Psalms 89:39 Jeremiah 13:18 Ezekiel 21:26 Revelation 2:10 3:11

is fallen from our head

Heb. of our head is fallen. woe.

1:8,18 2:1 4:13 Proverbs 14:34 Isaiah 3:9-11 Jeremiah 2:17,19 4:18 Ezekiel 7:17-22 22:12-16 2 Peter 2:4-6

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

our heart

1:13,22 Leviticus 26:36 Isaiah 1:5 Jeremiah 8:18 46:5 Ezekiel 21:7,15 Micah 6:13

our eyes

2:11 Deuteronomy 28:65 Job 17:7 Psalms 6:7 31:9 69:3 Isaiah 38:14

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

of the

2:8,9 1 Kings 9:7,8 Psalms 74:2,3 Jeremiah 17:3 26:9 52:13 Micah 3:12

the foxes

Isaiah 32:13,14 Jeremiah 9:11

Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

remainest

Deuteronomy 33:27 Psalms 9:7 10:16 29:10 90:2 102:12,25-27 Habakkuk 1:12 1 Timothy 1:17 6:15,16 Hebrews 1:10-12 13:8 Revelation 1:4,8,17,18

thy throne

Psalms 45:6 145:13 146:10 Daniel 2:44 7:14,27 Hebrews 1:8,9

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

dost

Psalms 13:1 44:24 74:1 77:7-10 79:5 85:5 89:46 94:3,4 Isaiah 64:9-12 Jeremiah 14:19-21

so long time

Heb. for length of days.

Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Turn

1 Kings 18:37 Psalms 80:3,7,19 85:4 Jeremiah 31:18 32:39,40 Ezekiel 11:19,20 Ezekiel 36:25-27,37 Habakkuk 3:2

renew

Jeremiah 31:4,23-25 33:10,13 Zechariah 8:3-6 Malachi 3:4

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

But thou hast utterly rejected us

or, For wilt thou utterly reject us?

Psalms 44:9 60:1,2 Jeremiah 15:1-5 Ezekiel 37:11 Hosea 1:6