How long, O Lord? Wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Lamentations 5:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us? Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long? American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time? Common English Bible Why do you forget us continually; why do you abandon us for such a long time? Catholic Public Domain Version Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why wilt thou forget us for ever? Why wilt thou forsake us for a long time? |
How long, O Lord? Wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
How long must I bear pain in my soul, and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
Why dost thou hide thy face? Why dost thou forget our affliction and oppression?
O God, why dost thou cast us off for ever? Why does thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
How long, O Lord? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou prolong thy anger to all generations?
How long, O Lord? Wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How long will thy wrath burn like fire?
Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest,
Why shouldst thou be like a man confused, like a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.”