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
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
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?