Lamentations 5

Lamentations · Chapter 5

Lamentations 5:20

1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.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.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
to why?לָ֤מָּהLA-mahH4100
what

מָא (ma) 1) what, whatever 1a) what? 1b) whatever, what, whatsoever 1c) how?, why?, wherefore? (with prefixes)

to perpetuityלָנֶ֙צַח֙la-NE-tzachH5331
perpetuity

נֵ֫צַח (ne.tsach) 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

do you forget usתִּשְׁכָּחֵ֔נוּtish-ka-CHE-nuH7911
to forget

שָׁכַח (sha.khach) 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 Aramaic equivalent: she.khach (שְׁכַח "to find" H7912)

do you abandon? usתַּֽעַזְבֵ֖נוּta-'az-VE-nuH5800A
to leave: forsake

עָזַב (a.zav) 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

for length ofלְאֹ֥רֶךְle-'O-rekhH0753
length

אֹ֫רֶךְ (o.rekh) 1) length 1a) physical length 1b) of time 2) forbearance, self-restraint (of patience)

daysיָמִֽים׃ya-MIMH3117G
day

יוֹם (yom) : day/when/time/period 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

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.