Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake us 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?
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?
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?
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
19 But thou, O LORD, that remainest for evermore, and thy seat, world without end: 20 Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake us so long? 21 O LORD, turn thou us unto thee: and so shall we be turned. Renew our days as in old time,
Cross References
Psalm 13:1
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 44:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face? Wilt thou clean forget our misery and oppression?
Psalm 74:1
{An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalm 77:7-10
Will the LORD absent himself forever? Will he be no more intreated?
Psalm 79:5
LORD, how long wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever?
Psalm 85:5
Wilt thou be displeased at us forever? Wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another?
Psalm 89:46
LORD, how long wilt thou hide thyself? Forever? And shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalm 94:3-4
LORD, how long shall the ungodly, how long shall the ungodly triumph?
Isaiah 64:9-12
Be not too sore displeased, O LORD, and keep not our offenses too long in thy remembrance: but consider that we all are thy people.
Jeremiah 14:19-21
"Hast thou then utterly forsaken Judah?" said I, "Doest thou so abhor Zion? Or hast thou so plagued us, that we can be healed no more? We looked for peace, and there cometh no good: for the time of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.