Lamentations 5:20 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 5:20

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

YLT

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

DBT

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

About this book

Old Testament

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Cross-references

18 verses on the floor

Psalms 13:1
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Psalms 44:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Jeremiah 14:19–21
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!
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! Is any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

1 ) humbly reason with him concerning his judgments, especially the continuance of the desolations of his sanctuary. They earnestly pray to God for mercy and grace: "Lord, do not reject us for ever, but turn thou us unto thee; renew our days, "

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

LAM 5:20PSA 13:1 JOB 13:24
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 5:20PSA 13:1 PSA 89:46
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 5:20PSA 13:1 PSA 94:3-4
LAM 5:20PSA 13:1 PSA 22:1-2
LAM 5:20PSA 13:1 PSA 80:4
LAM 5:20PSA 89:46 PSA 79:5
LAM 5:20PSA 79:5 PSA 85:5
LAM 5:20PSA 79:5 PSA 74:1

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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