“Here in Chapter 5, the prophet, after many lamentations, addressed himself for a remedy by prayer. So, he first exposes the people's misery, second, he seeks mercy. As expressed in Verse 19: "But thou, O Lord, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations." The first idea (the people's misery) has two asp…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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— Lamentations 5:1 —
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.