Lamentations 5:20
Good News Translation
Why have you abandoned us so long? Will you ever remember us again?

New Revised Standard Version
Why have you forgotten us completely? Why have you forsaken us these many days?

Contemporary English Version
Why have you forgotten us for so long?

New American Bible
Why have you utterly forgotten us, forsaken us for so long?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

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Psalm 13:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?

Psalm 44:24 Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?

Psalm 74:1 Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?

Psalm 77:7-10 Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again? . . .

Psalm 79:5 How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?

Psalm 85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to generation?

Psalm 89:46 How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?

Psalm 94:3,4 How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory? . . .

Isaiah 64:9-12 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people. . . .

Jeremiah 14:19-21 Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble. . . .

so long time.

Context
A Prayer for Restoration
19But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation. 20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?21Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.…
Cross References
Psalm 13:1
Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?

Psalm 44:24
Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?

Isaiah 62:6
Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the day, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,

Lamentations 5:19
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