Lamentations 5:20

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

"Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?" - Lamentations 5:20
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What does Lamentations 5:20 mean?

Lamentations 5:20 in the King James Version of the Bible reads, "Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?" This verse is part of the book of Lamentations, a collection of five poems lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem and the suffering of the…

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The Silent Suffering: Finding Hope in Lamentations 5:20

In the heart of the book of Lamentations, we encounter a raw expression of grief and despair. The author, traditionally believed to be the prophet Jeremiah, speaks from the depths of anguish following the destruction of Jerusalem. Lamentations 5:20 poignantly articulates this…

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A Prayer for Restoration and Divine Remembrance

O Sovereign Lord, our Eternal Father, As we gather in the sanctuary of Your presence, we bow before You with heavy hearts, reflecting deeply on the poignant words of Lamentations 5:20: "Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?" In these sobering…

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Lamentations 5:20 - "Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?"
Lamentations 5:5 - "Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest."
Lamentations 3:20 - "My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me."
Lamentations 5:11 - "They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah."
Lamentations 5:3 - "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Lamentations 5:2 - "Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens."
Lamentations 5:17 - "For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim."
Lamentations 5:7 - "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities."
Lamentations 5:15 - "The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."
Lamentations 5:18 - "Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it."
Lamentations 5:6 - "We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."
Lamentations 5:10 - "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine."
Lamentations 5:13 - "They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood."
Lamentations 5:12 - "Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured."
Lamentations 3:5 - "He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."
Lamentations 5:14 - "The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick."
Lamentations 5:9 - "We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness."
Lamentations 5:19 – "You, Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation."
Lamentations 5:19 - "Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation."
"Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest." - Lamentations 5:5
Lamentations 5:8 - "Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand."
Lamentations 5:1 - "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
Lamentations 5:22 - "But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us."
Lamentations 4:5 - "They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills."
Lamentations 5:4 - "We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us."
Lamentations 5:16 - "The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!"
"My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me." - Lamentations 3:20
Lamentations 4:20 - "The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen."
"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows." - Lamentations 5:3