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Lamentations 5:1

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REMEMBER, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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  1. Psalms 44:13–16Rank 1 from verse 1
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    13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

    14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

    15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

    16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

  2. Psalms 89:50–51Rank 2 from verse 1
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    50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

    51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

  3. Habakkuk 3:2Rank 3 from verse 1
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    2O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

  4. Jeremiah 15:15Rank 4 from verse 1
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    15¶ O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

  5. Lamentations 2:15Rank 5 from verse 1
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    15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

  6. Lamentations 3:19Rank 6 from verse 1
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    19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  7. Lamentations 3:61Rank 7 from verse 1
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    61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

  8. Nehemiah 4:4Rank 8 from verse 1
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    4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

  9. Psalms 123:3–4Rank 9 from verse 1
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    3Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

    4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

  10. Psalms 74:10–11Rank 10 from verse 1
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    10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

    11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

  11. Psalms 79:12Rank 11 from verse 1
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    12And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

  12. Psalms 79:4Rank 12 from verse 1
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    4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

  13. Job 10:9Rank 13 from verse 1
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    9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

  14. Job 7:7Rank 14 from verse 1
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    7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

  15. Lamentations 1:20Rank 15 from verse 1
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    20Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  16. Lamentations 2:20Rank 16 from verse 1
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    20¶ Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  17. Luke 23:42Rank 17 from verse 1
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    42And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

  18. Nehemiah 1:3Rank 18 from verse 1
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    3And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

  19. Nehemiah 1:8Rank 19 from verse 1
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    8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

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Lamentations 5:1

COMBINED MEANING

remember

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1. To retain in mind or call back to mind; to recall. 2. To keep in mind with heed, observance, commemoration, or corresponding action. 3. To take account of a person, promise, deed, sin, or need and act with regard to it.

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COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

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us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

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consider

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1. To think upon attentively; to examine or weigh. 2. To regard, observe, or take notice of.

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behold

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1. Used as an attention word or command directing someone to look at or take notice of the person, thing, statement, or event presented: look; see; take notice. 2. As a verb, to look upon, see, observe, or witness.

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COMBINED MEANING

reproach

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Sense 1: Shame, disgrace, dishonour, contempt, blame, reviling, or taunt. Sense 2: As a verb, to shame, insult, blame, or speak contemptuously against.

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4:22¶ The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

5:1REMEMBER, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

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5:2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

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