Lamentations 5:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?

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 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?

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 dost thou hide thy face? Why dost thou forget our affliction and oppression?

Psalm 74:1

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

Psalm 79:5

How long, O Lord? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?

Psalm 85:5

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou prolong thy anger to all generations?

Psalm 89:46

How long, O Lord? Wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How long will thy 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 set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest,

Jeremiah 14:9

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.”