Lamentations 5:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָ֤מָּה לָנֶ֙צַח֙ תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֔נוּ תַּֽעַזְבֵ֖נוּ לְאֹ֥רֶךְ יָמִֽים׃

Transliteration

lāmmâ to-neṣaḥ tišəkāḥēnû, taʿazḇēnû to-ʾōreḵ yāmîm

Grammar Details

*lāmmâ*: interrogative - why
*neṣaḥ*: noun masculine singular - perpetuity
*tišəkāḥēnû*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular with 1st person plural suffix - you forget us
*taʿazḇēnû*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular with 1st person plural suffix - you forsake us
*ʾōreḵ*: noun masculine singular construct - length of
*yāmîm*: noun masculine plural - days

Word Meanings

*lāmmâ*: why/for what reason
*neṣaḥ*: perpetuity/forever/completely
*tišəkāḥēnû*: you forget/neglect us
*taʿazḇēnû*: you forsake/abandon/leave us
*ʾōreḵ* *yāmîm*: length of days (idiom: for so long a time)

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 13:1 : 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Ps 44:24 : 24 Wherefore hidest{H8686)} thou thy face, and forgettest{H8799)} our affliction and our oppression?
Ps 74:1 : 1 Maschil{H8688)} of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off{H8804)} for ever? why doth thine anger smoke{H8799)} against the sheep of thy pasture?
Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord cast off{H8799)} for ever? and will{H8686)} he be favourable{H8800)} no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone{H8804)} for ever? doth his promise fail{H8804)} for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten{H8804)} to be gracious{H8800)}? hath he in anger shut up{H8804)} his tender mercies? Selah. 10 And I said{H8799)}, This is my infirmity{H8763)}: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry{H8799)} for ever? shall thy jealousy burn{H8799)} like fire?
Ps 85:5 : 5 Wilt thou be angry{H8799)} with us for ever? wilt thou draw out{H8799)} thine anger to all generations?
Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide{H8735)} thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn{H8799)} like fire?
Ps 94:3-4 : 3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph{H8799)}? 4 How long shall they utter{H8686)} and speak{H8762)} hard things? and all the workers{H8802)} of iniquity boast{H8691)} themselves?
Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Jer 14:19-21 : 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, 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.

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