How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Isaiah 49:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But Zion [Jerusalem, her people as seen in captivity] said, The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me. American Standard Version (1901) But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me. Common English Bible But Zion says, “The LORD has abandoned me; my Lord has forgotten me.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Zion said: "The Lord has abandoned me, and the Lord has forgotten me." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me. |
How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from your sight.” But you heard my supplications when I cried out to you for help.
Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?
Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his suffering ones.
Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these might forget, yet I will not forget you.
For the Lord has called you like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, like the wife of a man’s youth when she is cast off, says your God.
therefore, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city that I gave to you and your ancestors.
the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
Why have you forgotten us completely? Why have you forsaken us these many days?
Now you, mortal, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have said: “Our transgressions and our sins weigh upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?”