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Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
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A Model for Prayer in Pain
Commentators identify this chapter as a powerful prayer or complaint. It serves as a biblical model for believers in times of suffering. Rather than enduring pain in silence, God's people are encouraged to pour out their complaints to Him, detailing their disgrace as a direct appeal for His intervention.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What is come upon us - literally, “what” has happened “to us:” our national disgrace.
19th Century
Anglican
Remember, O Lord. —The fact that the number of verses is, as in Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:4, the same as that of…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
