Lamentations 5:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long?

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  • Ps 13:1 : 1 How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
  • Ps 44:24 : 24 Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord cast off forever? and will He be favorable no more? 8 Is His mercy completely gone forever? Does His promise fail forevermore? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has 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, LORD? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?
  • Ps 85:5 : 5 Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Shall your wrath burn like fire?
  • Ps 94:3-4 : 3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 4 How long shall they utter and speak arrogant things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
  • Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Do not be very angry, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people. 10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, O LORD? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
  • Jer 14:19-21 : 19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble! 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You. 21 Do not abhor us, for Your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; remember, do not break Your covenant with us.

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  • Ps 13:1
    83%

    1How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

  • Lam 5:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old.

    22But You have utterly rejected us; You are exceedingly angry with us.

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    80%

    23Awake, why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off forever.

    24Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • Lam 5:19
    80%

    19You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.

  • Ps 85:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?

    6Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?

  • Ps 74:1
    78%

    1O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

  • Lam 5:1
    77%

    1Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; consider and behold our disgrace.

  • Ps 44:17
    76%

    17All this has come upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.

  • Ps 79:5
    76%

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

  • Ps 77:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7Will the Lord cast off forever? and will He be favorable no more?

    8Is His mercy completely gone forever? Does His promise fail forevermore?

    9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah.

  • Ps 60:1
    76%

    1O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You have been displeased; O turn to us again.

  • Ps 89:46-47
    2 verses
    75%

    46How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Shall your wrath burn like fire?

    47Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?

  • Ps 25:6
    75%

    6Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, for they have been from of old.

  • Isa 51:13
    74%

    13And you forget the LORD your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and you fear continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

  • Ps 90:13
    74%

    13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.

  • Ps 89:49
    74%

    49Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?

  • Ps 44:20
    74%

    20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

  • Isa 63:17
    74%

    17O LORD, why have you made us to stray from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

  • Jer 2:32
    74%

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

  • Ps 80:18
    74%

    18So we will not turn back from you; revive us, and we will call upon your name.

  • Jer 14:9
    73%

    9Why should You be as a man astonished, as a mighty man who cannot save? Yet You, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by Your name; do not leave us.

  • Ps 80:4
    73%

    4O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

  • Lam 3:17
    73%

    17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Jer 14:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Ps 79:8
    73%

    8O do not remember against us former iniquities; let Your tender mercies swiftly come to us, for we are brought very low.

  • Ps 90:1
    73%

    1Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

  • Ps 74:10
    73%

    10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?

  • Isa 49:14
    73%

    14But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.

  • Ps 60:10
    72%

    10Will You not, O God, who had cast us off? And You, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

  • Isa 54:7
    72%

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

  • Jer 23:39-40
    2 verses
    72%

    39Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you and will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of 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 you shall say, Why does the LORD our God do all these things to us? then you shall answer them, Just as you have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

  • Ps 10:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see it.

    12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up Your hand; do not forget the humble.

  • Ps 10:1
    72%

    1Why do You stand afar off, O LORD? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

  • Ps 102:12
    72%

    12But you, O LORD, shall endure forever, and your remembrance to all generations.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    72%

    15For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; 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 mercy 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 nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

  • Ps 71:9
    72%

    9Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

  • Ps 108:11
    72%

    11Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? And will not you, O God, go forth with our hosts?

  • Ps 38:21
    72%

    21Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.