Lamentations 5:20
Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
In Context
19You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
21Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
Cross References
Psalms 13:1How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Psalms 42:10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 74:1God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 79:5How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 89:46How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, and the 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 →