Lamentations 5:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 13:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?
  • Ps 44:24 : 24 Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
  • Ps 74:1 : 1 An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more? 8 Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations? 9 Hath God forgotten `His' favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah. 10 And I say: `My weakness is, The changes of the right hand of the Most High.'
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.
  • Ps 85:5 : 5 To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?
  • Ps 89:46 : 46 Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?
  • Ps 94:3-4 : 3 Till when `do' the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult? 4 They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
  • Isa 64:9-9 : 9 Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people `are' we all. 10 Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste. 12 For these dost Thou refrain Thyself, Jehovah? Thou art silent, and dost afflict us very sore!'
  • Jer 14:19-21 : 19 Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror. 20 We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee. 21 Do not despise, for Thy name's sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us.

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  • Ps 13:1
    83%

    1To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

  • Lam 5:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.

    22For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    80%

    23Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

    24Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,

  • Lam 5:19
    80%

    19Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.

  • Ps 85:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

    6Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

  • Ps 74:1
    78%

    1An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.

  • Lam 5:1
    77%

    1Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

  • Ps 44:17
    76%

    17All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.

  • Ps 79:5
    76%

    5Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

  • Ps 77:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more?

    8Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations?

    9Hath God forgotten `His' favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.

  • Ps 60:1
    76%

    1To the Overseer. -- `Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

  • Ps 89:46-47
    2 verses
    75%

    46Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?

    47Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

  • Ps 25:6
    75%

    6Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age `are' they.

  • Isa 51:13
    74%

    13And thou dost forget Jehovah thy maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And thou dost fear continually all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he hath prepared to destroy. And where `is' the fury of the oppressor?

  • Ps 90:13
    74%

    13Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

  • Ps 89:49
    74%

    49Where `are' Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness,

  • Ps 44:20
    74%

    20If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,

  • Isa 63:17
    74%

    17Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants' sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.

  • Jer 2:32
    74%

    32Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.

  • Ps 80:18
    74%

    18And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.

  • Jer 14:9
    73%

    9Why art Thou as one dumb? As a mighty one not able to save? And Thou `art' in our midst, O Jehovah, And Thy name over us is called, leave us not.

  • Ps 80:4
    73%

    4Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

  • Lam 3:17
    73%

    17And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.

  • Jer 14:20-21
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    73%

    20We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.

    21Do not despise, for Thy name's sake, Dishonour not the throne of Thine honour, Remember, break not Thy covenant with us.

  • Ps 79:8
    73%

    8Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

  • Ps 90:1
    73%

    1A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou -- Thou hast been, To us -- in generation and generation,

  • Ps 74:10
    73%

    10Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?

  • Isa 49:14
    73%

    14And Zion saith, `Jehovah hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me.'

  • Ps 60:10
    72%

    10Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts!

  • Isa 54:7
    72%

    7In a small moment I have forsaken thee, And in great mercies I do gather thee,

  • Jer 23:39-40
    2 verses
    72%

    39Therefore, lo, I -- I have taken you utterly away, And I have sent you out, And the city that I gave to you, And to your fathers, from before My face,

    40And I have put on you reproach age-during, And shame age-during that is not forgotten!

  • Jer 5:19
    72%

    19And it hath come to pass, when ye say, `For what hath Jehovah our God done to us all these?' That thou hast said unto them, `As ye have forsaken Me, And serve the gods of a foreigner in your land, So do ye serve strangers in a land not yours.

  • Ps 10:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

    12Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.

  • Ps 10:1
    72%

    1Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

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    72%

    12And Thou, O Jehovah, to the age abidest, And Thy memorial to all generations.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    72%

    15for sojourners we `are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow `are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

  • Ps 136:23
    72%

    23Who in our lowliness hath remembered us, For to the age `is' His kindness.

  • Ps 27:9
    72%

    9Hide not Thy face from me, Turn not aside in anger Thy servant, My help Thou hast been. Leave me not, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

  • Ps 71:9
    72%

    9Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

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    72%

    11Hast not Thou, O God, cast us off? And Thou goest not out, O God, with our hosts!

  • Ps 38:21
    72%

    21Do not forsake me, O Jehovah, My God, be not far from me,