What is come upon us - literally, “what” has happened “to us:” our national disgrace.

Remember, O Lord. —The fact that the number of verses is, as in Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:4, the same as that of…

This prayer should be read as unconnected with the Lamentations, because the initial letters of the verses are not written according to the order o…

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us This chapter is called, in some Greek copies, and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, an…

Is anyone afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they do not complain of evils…