Lamentations 5:20

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Wherefore wylt thou styll forget vs, and forsake vs so long?

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  • Ps 13:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wylt thou forget me O God, for euer? howe long wilt thou hyde thy face from me?
  • Ps 44:24 : 24 wherfore hydest thou thy face, and forgettest our miserie and tribulation?
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 A wise instruction (to be song) of Asaph. O Lorde wherfore dost thou forsake vs altogether? wherfore breaketh foorth thy anger agaynst the sheepe of thy pasture.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 What, wyll the Lorde forsake me for euer? wyll he be no more intreated to be fauourable? 8 Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? and is his promise made from one generation to another, come vtterly to an ende. 9 Hath God forgotten to be gratious? and will he shut vp his louing kindnesse in displeasure? Selah. 10 And I sayde, this is my death: but the ryght hande of the most hyghest may graunt me yeres.
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 O God, howe long wylt thou be angry? shall thy ielousie burne lyke fire for euer?
  • Ps 85:5 : 5 Wilt thou be displeased at vs for euer? and wylt thou stretche out thy wrath from one generation to another,
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 O God howe long wylt thou hyde thy selfe? for euer? shall thy wrath burne lyke fire?
  • Ps 94:3-4 : 3 O God howe long shall the vngodly: howe long shall the vngodly triumph? 4 All such as be workers of iniquitie: they babble, they prate shoutly, they make boastes of them selues.
  • Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Be not to sore displeased O Lord, and kepe not our offences to long in thy remembraunce: but consider that we all are thy people. 10 The cities of thy sanctuarie lye waste, Sion is a wildernesse, and Hierusalem a desert. 11 Our holy house whiche is our beautie where our fathers praysed thee, is brent vp: yea, all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away. 12 Wylt thou not be intreated O Lorde, for all this wylt thou holde thy peace, and scourge vs so sore?
  • Jer 14:19-21 : 19 Hast thou then vtterly forsaken Iuda? Doest thou so abhorre Sion? Wherfore hast thou so plagued vs, that we can be healed no more? We loked for peace, and there commeth no good, for the tyme of health, and lo here is nothyng but trouble. 20 We knowledge (O Lorde) all our misdeedes, and the sinnes of our fathers: for we haue offended thee. 21 Cast vs not of (O Lord) for thy names sake, forget not thy louyng kindnesse, ouerthrowe not the throne of thine honour, breake not the couenaunt that thou hast made with vs.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1To the chiefe musition, a Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wylt thou forget me O God, for euer? howe long wilt thou hyde thy face from me?

  • Lam 5:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21O Lord turne thou vs vnto thee, and so shall we be turned, renue our dayes as in olde tymes:

    22But thou hast banished vs vtterly, and hast ben displeased at vs.

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    80%

    23Stirre vp O Lorde, why slepest thou? awake & be not absent from vs for euer:

    24wherfore hydest thou thy face, and forgettest our miserie and tribulation?

  • 19But thou O Lorde, that remaynest for euer, and thy seate worlde without ende:

  • Ps 85:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5Wilt thou be displeased at vs for euer? and wylt thou stretche out thy wrath from one generation to another,

    6Wylt thou not turne agayne and reuiue vs: that thy people may reioyce in thee?

  • 1A wise instruction (to be song) of Asaph. O Lorde wherfore dost thou forsake vs altogether? wherfore breaketh foorth thy anger agaynst the sheepe of thy pasture.

  • 1Call to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion.

  • 17And though all this be come vpon vs: yet we do not forget thee, nor shewe our selues to be false in thy couenaunt.

  • 5O God, howe long wylt thou be angry? shall thy ielousie burne lyke fire for euer?

  • Ps 77:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7What, wyll the Lorde forsake me for euer? wyll he be no more intreated to be fauourable?

    8Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? and is his promise made from one generation to another, come vtterly to an ende.

    9Hath God forgotten to be gratious? and will he shut vp his louing kindnesse in displeasure? Selah.

  • 1To the chiefe musition vpon Susan Eduth, a golden psalme of Dauid, for to teache: (made) when he fought against Mesopotamia and Syria of Stobah, and when Ioab turned backe and slue twelue thousande Edomites in the salt valley.) O Lorde thou hast cast vs out, thou hast dispearsed vs, thou art displeased: O turne thee vnto vs agayne.

  • Ps 89:46-47
    2 verses
    75%

    46O God howe long wylt thou hyde thy selfe? for euer? shall thy wrath burne lyke fire?

    47Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?

  • 6Call to remembraunce O God thy tender mercies & thy louyng kindnesse: for they haue ben for euer.

  • 13And forgettest the Lorde that made thee, that spread out the heauens, and layde the foundation of the earth: but thou art euer afrayde for the syght of thyne oppressour, which is redy to do harme: where is the wrath of the oppressour?

  • 13Turne agayne O God (what, for euer wylt thou be angry?) and be gratious vnto thy seruauntes.

  • 49Lorde where are become thy former olde louyng kyndnesses: which thou dydst sweare vnto Dauid by thy fayth that thou wouldest perfourme.

  • 20If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god:

  • 17O Lorde, wherefore hast thou led vs out of the way? wherefore hast thou hardened our heartes that we feare thee not? Be at one with vs agayne for thy seruauntes sake, and for the generation of thyne heritage.

  • 32Doth a mayde forget her rayment, or a bride her stomacher? but my people hath forgotten me a very long whyle.

  • 18And so we wyll not go backe from thee: thou shalt reuiue vs, and we wyll call vpon thy name.

  • 9Why wylt thou make thy selfe a cowarde, and as it were a giaunt that yet may not helpe? But thou O Lorde art in the middest of vs, and thy name is called vpon of vs, forsake vs not.

  • 4O God, Lorde of hoastes: howe long wylt thou be angry at the prayer of thy people?

  • 17He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges.

  • Jer 14:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20We knowledge (O Lorde) all our misdeedes, and the sinnes of our fathers: for we haue offended thee.

    21Cast vs not of (O Lord) for thy names sake, forget not thy louyng kindnesse, ouerthrowe not the throne of thine honour, breake not the couenaunt that thou hast made with vs.

  • 8O remember not against vs sinnes that be past, with all speede let thy tender mercy preuent vs: for we are brought very lowe.

  • 1A prayer of Moyses the man of God. Lorde thou hast ben our habitation: from one generation to another generation.

  • 10O Lorde shall the aduersarie do this dishonour continually? shall the enemie blaspheme thy name for euer?

  • 14But Sion sayde: God hath forsaken me, and my Lorde hath forgotten me.

  • 10Hast not thou remoued vs from thence O Lorde? and wylt not thou O Lorde go out with our hoastes?

  • 7A litle while haue I forsaken thee: but with great mercifulnesse shall I take thee vp vnto me.

  • Jer 23:39-40
    2 verses
    72%

    39Beholde therefore, I wyll take you vp as a burthen, and wyl cast you farre of from my presence, yea and the citie also that I gaue you and your fathers:

    40And wyll bryng you to an euerlasting confusion, and into a shame that shall neuer be forgotten.

  • 19But if they say, wherfore doth the Lorde our God all this vnto vs? Then aunswere them: because that lyke as ye haue forsaken me, & serued straunge gods in your lande, euen so shal ye serue straungers out of your lande.

  • Ps 10:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11He sayeth in his heart, tushe, the Lord hath forgotten: he hydeth away his face, and he wyll neuer see it.

    12Aryse vp O Lorde God: lift vp thine hande, forget not the afflicted.

  • 1Why standest thou so farre of O God? why hidest thee in the tyme of trouble?

  • 12But thou O God endurest for euer: and thy remembraunce throughout all generations.

  • 15For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.

  • 23Who remembred vs when we were brought lowe: for his mercy endureth for euer.

  • 9O hide not thou thy face from me, nor cast thy seruaunt away in a displeasure: thou hast ben my succour, leaue me not, neither forsake me O Lorde of my saluation.

  • 9Cast me not away in the tyme of age: forsake me not when my strength fayleth me.

  • 11Hast not thou remoued vs from thence? and wylt not thou O Lorde go out with our hoastes?

  • 21Forsake me not O God: O my Lorde be not thou farre fro me.