Lamentations 5:20

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Why do you continually forget us,abandon us for our entire lives?

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

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

New American Standard Bible
Why will You forget us forever? Why do You abandon us for so long?

New Century Version
Why have you forgotten us for so long? Have you left us forever?

Amplified Bible
Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?

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

Berean Standard Bible
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Why do you never remember us? Why abandon us for so long a time?

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

Easy-to-Read Version
You seem to have forgotten us forever. You seem to have left us alone for such a long time.

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore do not forget us for ever, nor forsake us for so long a time.

Good News Translation
Why have you abandoned us so long? Will you ever remember us again?

Lexham English Bible
Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us for so long?

Literal Translation
Why do You forget us forever, forsake us the length of days?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore wilt thou still forget vs, and forsake vs so longe?

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

Bible in Basic English
Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherefore wylt thou styll forget vs, and forsake vs so long?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whi schalt thou foryete vs with outen ende, schalt thou forsake vs in to lengthe of daies?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?

New English Translation
Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

New King James Version
Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time?

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

New Life Bible
Why do You forget us forever? Why do You leave us alone for so long?

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?

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

Revised Standard Version
Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?

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

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. ¹⁸ Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. ¹⁹ Thou, O Lord , remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. ²⁰ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? ²¹ Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord , and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. ²² But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

dost: Psalms 13:1, Psalms 44:24, Psalms 74:1, Psalms 77:7-10, Psalms 79:5, Psalms 85:5, Psalms 89:46, Psalms 94:3, Psalms 94:4, Isaiah 64:9-12, Jeremiah 14:19-21

so long time: Heb. for length of days

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 12:22 - the Lord 2 Kings 21:14 - And I will Job 7:21 - why dost Isaiah 2:6 - Therefore Isaiah 6:12 - a great Isaiah 49:14 - my Lord Jeremiah 23:39 - and I Mark 15:34 - why

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore dost thou, forget us for ever,.... Since thou art firm, constant, and unchangeable, and thy love and covenant the same. God seems to forget his people when he afflicts them, or suffers them to be oppressed, and does not arise immediately for their help; which being deferred some time, looks like an eternity to them, or they fear it will ever be so; at least this they say to express their eager desire after his gracious presence, and to show how much they prize it:

[and] forsake us so long time? or, "to length of days" d? so long as the seventy years' captivity; which to be forsaken of God, or to seem to be forsaken of him, was with them a long time.

d לארך ימים "in longitudinem dierum", Pagninus, Montanus.