Lamentations 5:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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, wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Psalm 13:2

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Psalm 42:10

As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me; While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 44:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Psalm 74:1

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Psalm 79:5

How long, O LORD, wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Psalm 85:5

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

Psalm 89:46

How long, O LORD, wilt thou hid thyself for ever? How long shall thy wrath burn like fire?

Isaiah 49:14

But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.

Isaiah 62:6

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are the LORD'S remembrancers, take ye no rest,

Jeremiah 14:9

Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.