geneva@Lamentations:5:1 @ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: (note:)This prayer as is thought, was made when some of the people were carried away captive, others such as the poorest remained, and some went into Egypt and other places for comfort, though it seems that the prophet foreseeing their miseries to come, thus prayed.(:note) consider, and behold our reproach.
geneva@Lamentations:5:4 @ We have drank our (note:)Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage.(:note) water for money; our wood is sold to us.
geneva@Lamentations:5:6 @ We have given the (note:)We are joined in league and amity with them, or have submitted ourselves to them.(:note) hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
geneva@Lamentations:5:7 @ Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne (note:)As our fathers have been punished for their sins: so we that are guilty of the same sins are punished.(:note) their iniquities.
geneva@Lamentations:5:9 @ We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword (note:)Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness and would not suffer us to go and seek our necessary food.(:note) of the wilderness.
geneva@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes were hung up by (note:)That is, by the enemies hand.(:note) their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
geneva@Lamentations:5:13 @ They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under (note:)Their slavery was so great, that they were not able to abide it.(:note) the wood.
geneva@Lamentations:5:14 @ The elders have ceased from the (note:)There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth.(:note) gate, the young men from their music.
geneva@Lamentations:5:17 @ For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our (note:)With weeping.(:note) eyes are dim.
geneva@Lamentations:5:19 @ Thou, O LORD, remainest for (note:)And therefore your covenant and mercies can never fail.(:note) ever; thy throne from generation to generation.