Lamentations 5:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 13:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David]. How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
  • Ps 44:24 : 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 [Maschil of Asaph]. O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more? 8 Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? {{Selah 10 And I said, This is my infirmity; [But I will remember] the years of the right hand of the Most High.
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
  • Ps 85:5 : 5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?
  • Ps 94:3-4 : 3 Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph? 4 They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
  • Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
  • Jer 14:19-21 : 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! 20 We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee. 21 Do not abhor [us], for thy name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 13:1
    83%

    1[For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David]. How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

  • Lam 5:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

    22But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    80%

    23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast [us] not off for ever.

    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

  • Lam 5:19
    80%

    19Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

  • Ps 85:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

    6Wilt thou not quicken us again, That thy people may rejoice in thee?

  • Ps 74:1
    78%

    1[Maschil of Asaph]. O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

  • Lam 5:1
    77%

    1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

  • Ps 44:17
    76%

    17All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

  • Ps 79:5
    76%

    5How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

  • Ps 77:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more?

    8Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?

    9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? {{Selah

  • Ps 60:1
    76%

    1[For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand]. O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.

  • Ps 89:46-47
    2 verses
    75%

    46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?

    47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

  • Ps 25:6
    75%

    6Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old.

  • Isa 51:13
    74%

    13and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

  • Ps 90:13
    74%

    13Return, O Jehovah; How long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

  • Ps 89:49
    74%

    49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

  • Ps 44:20
    74%

    20If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

  • Isa 63:17
    74%

    17O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

  • Jer 2:32
    74%

    32Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

  • Ps 80:18
    74%

    18So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.

  • Jer 14:9
    73%

    9Why shouldest thou be as a man affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

  • Ps 80:4
    73%

    4O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

  • Lam 3:17
    73%

    17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

  • Jer 14:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

    21Do not abhor [us], for thy name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

  • Ps 79:8
    73%

    8Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low.

  • Ps 90:1
    73%

    1[A Prayer of Moses the man of God]. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations.

  • Ps 74:10
    73%

    10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

  • Isa 49:14
    73%

    14But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.

  • Ps 60:10
    72%

    10Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.

  • Isa 54:7
    72%

    7For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

  • Jer 23:39-40
    2 verses
    72%

    39therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

    40and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

  • Jer 5:19
    72%

    19And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say unto them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

  • Ps 10:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it.

    12Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor.

  • Ps 10:1
    72%

    1Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

  • Ps 102:12
    72%

    12But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial [name] unto all generations.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    72%

    15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

  • Ps 136:23
    72%

    23Who remembered us in our low estate; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever;

  • Ps 27:9
    72%

    9Hide not thy face from me; Put not thy servant away in anger: Thou hast been my help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

  • Ps 71:9
    72%

    9Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.

  • Ps 108:11
    72%

    11Hast not thou cast us off, O God? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.

  • Ps 38:21
    72%

    21Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me.