Lamentations Chapter 5 verse 20 Holy Bible
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, `And' forsake us so long time?
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Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
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Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Wherefore dost thou forget us, etc.? The poet does not say," Wherefore hast thou forgotten us?" One of the psalmists, indeed, does go so far (Psalm 74:1); but the poet of this lamentation, with a more tender and trustful reserve, adopts the tense of feeling (the imperfect) in preference to that of fact (the perfect), and asks, "Wherefore dost thou [to my feeling] forget us? Wherefore, if Jehovah's power is still unbroken, does he allow Israel to feel herself forsaken?" The fact is certain, viz. that the land of Israel is desolate, and (the poet seems to imply) desolate for some time already. The interpretation is hypothetical, and, as the last verse will show, the poet cannot bring himself to believe that it can be accurate.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Wherefore dost thou forget . . .--This was the problem of the mystery of suffering then, as it has been at all times. Jehovah had seemed forgetful of His people, indifferent to their miseries.
