Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
New American Standard Bible
Why do You forsake us
King James Version
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Holman Bible
abandoned us for our entire lives?
International Standard Version
So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long?
A Conservative Version
Why do thou forget us forever, [and] forsake us so long time?
American Standard Version
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?
Amplified
Why do You forget us forever?
Why do You forsake us so long?
Darby Translation
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore wilt thou forget us forever? wilt thou forsake us to length of days?
King James 2000
Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us {for so long}?
Modern King James verseion
Why do You forget us forever and forsake us the length of days?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake us so long?
NET Bible
Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
New Heart English Bible
Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?
Webster
Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
World English Bible
Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
Youngs Literal Translation
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
Interlinear
Netsach
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
19 You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal. 20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long? 21 Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
Cross References
Psalm 13:1
Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?
Psalm 44:24
Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
Psalm 74:1
Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?
Psalm 77:7-10
Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?
Psalm 85:5
Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?
Psalm 89:46
How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?
Psalm 94:3-4
How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?
Isaiah 64:9-12
Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.
Jeremiah 14:19-21
Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.