Lamentations 5:20
Wherefore do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
In Context
19You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.
21Turn you us unto you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Cross References
Psalms 13:1How long will you forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long will you hide your face from me?
Psalms 42:10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?
Psalms 74:1O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does yours anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 79:5How long, LORD? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 89:46How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire?
Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, The LORD 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 →