Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
In faithful submission to God's will, this lays the profound burden of the people's anguish before the Lord, pleading merely for him to look upon it and to behold the manifold wretchedness of their condition.  Their king Hezekiah, when Sennacherib threatened the city, did a similar thing, when he spread the insulting message of the Assyrian king before the presence of God in the Temple (2 Kings 19:14).  Price called this chapter, "A national prayer to Jehovah, Zion's only hope and help."[1]  "It is not a dirge, but a nation's prayer for compassion."[2]  Nevertheless, the Douay Version heads this chapter as, "The Prayer of Jeremiah."  It was the prophet's prayer for the suffering nation.