Lamentations 5:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

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  • Ps 13:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?
  • Ps 44:24 : 24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> 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?
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer? 8 Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing? 9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.) 10 And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?
  • Ps 85:5 : 5 Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?
  • Ps 94:3-4 : 3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us? 4 Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.
  • Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls. 10 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction. 11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment? 12 []
  • Jer 14:19-21 : 19 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. 20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you. 21 Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 13:1
    83%

    1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

  • Lam 5:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.

    22But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    80%

    23Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

    24Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • Lam 5:19
    80%

    19You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.

  • Ps 85:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

    6Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

  • Ps 74:1
    78%

    1<Maschil. Of Asaph.> 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?

  • Lam 5:1
    77%

    1Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

  • Ps 44:17
    76%

    17All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • Ps 79:5
    76%

    5How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

  • Ps 77:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?

    8Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?

    9Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

  • Ps 60:1
    76%

    1<To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt.> God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.

  • Ps 89:46-47
    2 verses
    75%

    46How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

    47See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

  • Ps 25:6
    75%

    6O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.

  • Isa 51:13
    74%

    13And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?

  • Ps 90:13
    74%

    13Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.

  • Ps 89:49
    74%

    49Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

  • Ps 44:20
    74%

    20If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

  • Isa 63:17
    74%

    17O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

  • Jer 2:32
    74%

    32Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.

  • Ps 80:18
    74%

    18So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.

  • Jer 14:9
    73%

    9Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.

  • Ps 80:4
    73%

    4O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

  • Lam 3:17
    73%

    17My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Jer 14:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

    21Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.

  • Ps 79:8
    73%

    8Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

  • Ps 90:1
    73%

    1<A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.

  • Ps 74:10
    73%

    10O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

  • Isa 49:14
    73%

    14But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.

  • Ps 60:10
    72%

    10Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.

  • Isa 54:7
    72%

    7For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.

  • Jer 23:39-40
    2 verses
    72%

    39For this reason, truly, I will put you completely out of my memory, and I will put you, and the town which I gave to you and to your fathers, away from before my face:

    40And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.

  • Jer 5:19
    72%

    19And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.

  • Ps 10:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

    12Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.

  • Ps 10:1
    72%

    1Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

  • Ps 102:12
    72%

    12But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    72%

    15For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

  • Ps 136:23
    72%

    23Who kept us in mind when we were in trouble: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

  • Ps 27:9
    72%

    9Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

  • Ps 71:9
    72%

    9Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

  • Ps 108:11
    72%

    11Have you not sent us away from you, O God? and you go not out with our armies.

  • Ps 38:21
    72%

    21Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.