Lamentations 5:20
Strong's Lexicon
Why
לָ֤מָּה (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: interr pron 1) what, how, of what kind 1a) (interrogative) 1a1) what? 1a2) of what kind 1a3) what? (rhetorical) 1a4) whatsoever, whatever, what 1b) (adverb) 1b1) how, how now 1b2) why 1b3) how! (exclamation) 1c) (with prep) 1c1) wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means? 1c2) because of what? 1c3) the like of what? 1c3a) how much?, how many?, how often? 1c3b) for how long? 1c4) for what reason?, why?, to what purpose? 1c5) until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore? indef pron 2) anything, aught, what may

have You forgotten us
תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֔נוּ (tiš·kā·ḥê·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7911: 1) to forget, ignore, wither 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to forget 1a2) to cease to care 1b) (Niphal) to be forgotten 1c) (Piel) to cause to forget 1d) (Hiphil) to make or cause to forget 1e) (Hithpael) to be forgotten

forever ?
לָנֶ֙צַח֙ (lā·ne·ṣaḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5331: 1) eminence, perpetuity, strength, victory, enduring, everlastingness 1a) eminence 1b) enduring of life 1c) endurance in time, perpetual, continual, unto the end 1d) everlastingness, ever

Why have You forsaken us
תַּֽעַזְבֵ֖נוּ (ta·‘az·ḇê·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5800: 1) to leave, loose, forsake 1a) (Qal) to leave 1a1) to depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone 1a2) to leave, abandon, forsake, neglect, apostatise 1a3) to let loose, set free, let go, free 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be left to 1b2) to be forsaken 1c) (Pual) to be deserted 2) to restore, repair 2a) (Qal) to repair

for so long
לְאֹ֥רֶךְ (lə·’ō·reḵ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 753: 1) length 1a) physical length 1b) of time 2) forbearance, self-restraint (of patience)

יָמִֽים׃ (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

Young's Literal Translation
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why have You forgotten us forever , abandoned us for our entire lives?

New American Standard Bible
Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?

King James Bible
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?

New Living Translation
Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long?

English Standard Version
Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days?

New American Standard Bible
Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why have You forgotten us forever, abandoned us for our entire lives?

International Standard Version
So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long?

NET Bible
Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

American Standard Version
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?

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

Young's Literal Translation
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
















Cross References
Psalm 13:1
How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Psalm 44:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Isaiah 62:6
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

Lamentations 1:1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

Lamentations 5:19
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

Lamentations 5:21
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Lamentations 5:22
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Ezekiel 1:1
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
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