Lamentations 5:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Why have you forgotten us completely? Why have you forsaken us these many days?

More versions

King 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?

Lamentations 5:20 Cross References

Psalm 13:1

How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalm 13:2

How long must I bear pain in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all day long? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Psalm 42:10

As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 44:24

Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

Psalm 74:1

O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

Psalm 79:5

How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous wrath burn like fire?

Psalm 85:5

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations?

Psalm 89:46

How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

Isaiah 49:14

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.”

Isaiah 62:6

Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted sentinels; all day and all night they shall never be silent. You who remind the Lord, take no rest,

Jeremiah 14:9

Why should you be like someone confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot give help? Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not forsake us!