Lamentations 5:20

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Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us for so long?

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  • Ps 13:1 : 1 For the director of music, a psalm of David.
  • Ps 44:24 : 24 Awake, Lord! Why do You sleep? Rouse Yourself; do not reject us forever.
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 A contemplation of Asaph. O God, why have You rejected us forever? Why does Your anger burn against the sheep of Your pasture?
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 I remember my song in the night; I meditate with my heart, and my spirit searches diligently. 8 Will the Lord reject forever and never again show His favor? 9 Has His mercy ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end for all generations? 10 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His compassion? Selah.
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
  • Ps 85:5 : 5 Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your anger toward us.
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 You have shortened the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah
  • Ps 94:3-4 : 3 How long, LORD, will the wicked, how long will the wicked exult? 4 They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
  • Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation. 10 Our holy and glorious house, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins. 11 For these things, will you restrain yourself, LORD? Will you remain silent and afflict us so severely?
  • Jer 14:19-21 : 19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror. 20 We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness and the guilt of our ancestors; indeed, we have sinned against You. 21 For the sake of Your name, do not despise us; do not dishonor Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 13:1
    83%

    1For the director of music, a psalm of David.

  • Lam 5:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21Restore us to yourself, LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old.

    22Unless you have utterly rejected us and are exceedingly angry with us.

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    80%

    23Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

    24Awake, Lord! Why do You sleep? Rouse Yourself; do not reject us forever.

  • Lam 5:19
    80%

    19But you, LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.

  • Ps 85:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your anger toward us.

    6Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger through all generations?

  • Ps 74:1
    78%

    1A contemplation of Asaph. O God, why have You rejected us forever? Why does Your anger burn against the sheep of Your pasture?

  • Lam 5:1
    77%

    1Remember, LORD, what has happened to us; look and see our disgrace.

  • Ps 44:17
    76%

    17This is from the taunts of those who insult and revile, from the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

  • Ps 79:5
    76%

    5How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

  • Ps 77:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7I remember my song in the night; I meditate with my heart, and my spirit searches diligently.

    8Will the Lord reject forever and never again show His favor?

    9Has His mercy ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end for all generations?

  • Ps 60:1
    76%

    1For the director, according to 'The Lily of the Testimony,' a Miktam of David, for instruction.

  • Ps 89:46-47
    2 verses
    75%

    46You have shortened the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah

    47How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?

  • Ps 25:6
    75%

    6Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.

  • Isa 51:13
    74%

    13You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in constant fear every day because of the anger of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

  • Ps 90:13
    74%

    13Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.

  • Ps 89:49
    74%

    49Who can live and not see death? Who can escape the power of the grave? Selah

  • Ps 44:20
    74%

    20You have crushed us in the place of jackals and covered us with deep darkness.

  • Isa 63:17
    74%

    17Why, LORD, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your inheritance.

  • Jer 2:32
    74%

    32Can a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding adornments? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

  • Ps 80:18
    74%

    18Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have made strong for yourself.

  • Jer 14:9
    73%

    9Why are You like a man stunned, like a warrior unable to save? Yet You are in our midst, LORD, and Your name is called upon us. Do not abandon us!

  • Ps 80:4
    73%

    4God, restore us! Make your face shine upon us so that we may be saved.

  • Lam 3:17
    73%

    17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Jer 14:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness and the guilt of our ancestors; indeed, we have sinned against You.

    21For the sake of Your name, do not despise us; do not dishonor Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

  • Ps 79:8
    73%

    8Do not hold against us the sins of our ancestors; may Your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.

  • Ps 90:1
    73%

    1A prayer of Moses, the man of God: Lord, you have been our dwelling place through all generations.

  • Ps 74:10
    73%

    10How long, O God, will the enemy reproach? Will the adversary despise Your name forever?

  • Isa 49:14
    73%

    14But Zion said, 'The Lord has abandoned me, and my Lord has forgotten me.'

  • Ps 60:10
    72%

    10Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.

  • Isa 54:7
    72%

    7For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you.

  • Jer 23:39-40
    2 verses
    72%

    39therefore I will surely forget you and cast you out of My presence along with the city I gave to you and your fathers.

    40I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame that will never be forgotten.

  • Jer 5:19
    72%

    19And when you ask, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' you are to tell them, 'As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.'

  • Ps 10:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11He says in his heart, 'God has forgotten; He has hidden His face; He will never see it.'

    12Arise, Lord! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the afflicted.

  • Ps 10:1
    72%

    1Why, Lord, do You stand far off? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

  • Ps 102:12
    72%

    12My days are like a shadow that lengthens, and I wither away like grass.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    72%

    15For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

  • Ps 136:23
    72%

    23He remembered us in our low estate, for His steadfast love endures forever.

  • Ps 27:9
    72%

    9Do not hide Your face from me; do not turn Your servant away in anger. You have been my help; do not leave me or abandon me, my God of salvation.

  • Ps 71:9
    72%

    9Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.

  • Ps 108:11
    72%

    11Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me as far as Edom?

  • Ps 38:21
    72%

    21Those who repay evil for good oppose me because I follow what is good.