Lamentations 5:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?

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

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

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

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

NASB 1995
Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?

NASB 1977
Why dost Thou forget us forever; Why dost Thou forsake us so long?

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why have You forgotten us forever, abandoned us for our entire lives?

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Why have you completely forgotten us? Why have you abandoned us for such a long time?

International Standard Version
So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long?

NET Bible
Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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

King James 2000 Bible
Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

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

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

American King James Version
Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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

A Faithful Version
Why do You forget us forever and forsake us for so long a time?

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

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

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Wherefore wylt thou styll forget vs, and forsake vs so long?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Wherfore wilt thou still forget vs, and forsake vs so longe?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!

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

Smith's Literal Translation
Wherefore wilt thou forget us forever? wilt thou forsake us to length of days?

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
You shall not leave us for eternity, nor forget us for the length of days!

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

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
















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