Lamentations 5:20
Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
In Context
19You, O YHWH, remain for all time, || Your throne to generation and generation.
21Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, || And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
Cross References
Psalms 13:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. Until when, O YHWH, || Do You forget me forever? Until when do You hide Your face from me?
Psalms 42:10With a sword in my bones || My adversaries have reproached me, || In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”
Psalms 74:1AN INSTRUCTION OF ASAPH. Why, O God, have You cast off forever? Your anger smokes against the flock of Your pasture.
Psalms 79:5Until when, O YHWH? Are You angry forever? Your jealousy burns as fire.
Psalms 89:46Until when, O YHWH, are You hidden? Does Your fury burn as fire forever?
Isaiah 49:14And Zion says, “YHWH has forsaken me, || And my Lord has forgotten me.”
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:18-22
Unchangeableness of God; Prayer for Mercy and Grace. ( b. c. 588.) 17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. 19 Thou, O Lord , remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord , and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against… Read the whole commentary →