Tree of Life Version
Lamentations 5:20
20Why do You always forget us and forsake us for so long?
Lamentations 5:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
- New International Version (NIV)Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time?
Context of Lamentations 5:20
18for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, as jackals prowl over it. 19You, Adonai, are enthroned forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation. Why do You always forget us and forsake us for so long? 21Bring us back to You, Adonai, and we will return. Renew our days as of old— 22unless You have utterly rejected us and are exceedingly angry with us.
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:20 word by word
לָ֤מָּה לָנֶ֙צַח֙ תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֔נוּ תַּֽעַזְבֵ֖נוּ לְאֹ֥רֶךְ יָמִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:20
- Psalms 13:1For the music director, a psalm of David.
- Psalms 44:24Awake! Why do you sleep, my Lord? Wake up! Do not cast us off forever.
- Psalms 74:1A contemplative song of Asaph. Why have You cast us off forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the flock of Your pasture?
- Psalms 77:7In the night I remember my song. I meditate with my heart and my spirit is searching.
- Psalms 79:5How long, Adonai, will You be angry? Forever? Will Your jealousy keep blazing like fire?
- Psalms 85:5Restore us, O God of our salvation, and renounce Your indignation with us.
- Psalms 89:46You cut short the days of his youth. You covered him with shame. Selah
- Psalms 94:3How long will the wicked, Adonai, how long will the wicked gloat?
- Isaiah 64:9Your holy cities became a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- Jeremiah 14:19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for shalom, but nothing good came, and for a time of healing, but suddenly, terror!
Commentaries on Lamentations 5:20
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-22Verses 17-22 The people of God express deep concern for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities. But whatever changes there are on earth, God is still the same, and remains for ever wise and holy, just and good; with Him there is no variableness nor shadow of turning. They earnestly pray to God for mercy and grace; Turn us to thee, O Lord. God never leaves any till they first leave him; if he turns them to him in a way of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. for ever--that is, for "so long a time."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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