Lamentations 5:20

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

Lamentations 5:20 · King James Version

In other versions

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, `And' forsake us so long time?
ASV
Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
BBE
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
DBY
Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
WEB
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
YLT
Wherefore do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
ENG
Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
WBT
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
BSB

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

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

²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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

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