Lamentations 5:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?

Common English Bible

²⁰ Why do you forget us continually; why do you abandon us for such a long time?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?

Lamentations 5:20 Cross References

Psalm 44:24

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

Psalm 13:1

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

Psalm 89:46

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

Psalm 85:5

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

Psalm 79:5

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

Psalm 74:1

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

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,

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?

Isaiah 49:14

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

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.