Lamentations 5:20

World English Bible (2000)

Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?

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  • Ps 13:1 : 1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me 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 God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more? 8 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah. 10 Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High."
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will 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, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
  • Ps 94:3-4 : 3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? 4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
  • Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people. 10 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste. 12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?
  • Jer 14:19-21 : 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! 20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, 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, don't break your covenant with us.

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  • Ps 13:1
    83%

    1How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

  • Lam 5:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.

    22But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    80%

    23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

    24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • Lam 5:19
    80%

    19You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is 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?

    6Won't you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

  • Ps 74:1
    78%

    1God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

  • Lam 5:1
    77%

    1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

  • Ps 44:17
    76%

    17All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

  • Ps 79:5
    76%

    5How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

  • Ps 77:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7"Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

    8Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

    9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

  • Ps 60:1
    76%

    1God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

  • Ps 89:46-47
    2 verses
    75%

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

    47Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

  • Ps 25:6
    75%

    6Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

  • Isa 51:13
    74%

    13and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

  • Ps 90:13
    74%

    13Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

  • Ps 89:49
    74%

    49Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

  • Ps 44:20
    74%

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

  • Isa 63:17
    74%

    17O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

  • Jer 2:32
    74%

    32"Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

  • Ps 80:18
    74%

    18So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

  • Jer 14:9
    73%

    9Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us.

  • Ps 80:4
    73%

    4Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

  • Lam 3:17
    73%

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

  • Jer 14:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20We acknowledge, Yahweh, 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, don't break your covenant with us.

  • Ps 79:8
    73%

    8Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

  • Ps 90:1
    73%

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

  • Ps 74:10
    73%

    10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

  • Isa 49:14
    73%

    14But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me."

  • Ps 60:10
    72%

    10Haven't you, God, rejected us? You don't go out with our armies, God.

  • Isa 54:7
    72%

    7"For 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 will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

    40and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

  • Jer 5:19
    72%

    19It will happen, when you say, 'Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?' Then you shall say to them, 'Just like you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'

  • Ps 10:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

    12Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.

  • Ps 10:1
    72%

    1Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

  • Ps 102:12
    72%

    12But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    72%

    15For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

  • Ps 136:23
    72%

    23Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

  • Ps 27:9
    72%

    9Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

  • Ps 71:9
    72%

    9Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.

  • Ps 108:11
    72%

    11Haven't you rejected us, God? You don't go forth, God, with our armies.

  • Ps 38:21
    72%

    21Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.