Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore wilt thou forget us forever? wilt thou forsake us to length of days?
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?
Bible in Basic English
Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
Darby Translation
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
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 Thou, O Jehovah, shalt dwell forever; thy throne to generation and generation. 20 Wherefore wilt thou forget us forever? wilt thou forsake us to length of days? 21 Turn us back, O Jehovah, to thee, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Cross References
Psalm 13:1
To the overseer; chanting of David.
Psalm 44:24
Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression?
Psalm 74:1
Understanding to Asaph. Wherefore, O God, didst thou reject forever? will thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy feeding?
Psalm 77:7-10
Will Jehovah reject forever? and will he no more add to be satisfied?
Psalm 79:5
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry forever? shall thy jealousy burn as fire?
Psalm 85:5
Wilt thou be angry with us forever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to generation and generation?
Psalm 89:46
How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn as fire?
Psalm 94:3-4
How long shall the unjust, O Jehovah, how long shall the unjust exult?
Isaiah 64:9-12
Thou wilt not be angry, O Jehovah, even greatly, and not forever wilt thou remember iniquity: behold, look now, Ye are all thy people.
Jeremiah 14:19-21
Rejecting, didst thou reject Judah? if thy soul abhorred in Zion? wherefore didst thou smite us, and no healing to us? waiting for peace, and no good; and for a time of healing, and behold terror.