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Lamentations 5:20 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 5 · verse 20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?Lamentations 5:20 · King James Version
Lamentations 5:20 in context
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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- forsakeʻâzabto loosenH5800 →
- forgetshâkachto mislayH7911 →
- evernetsachproperly, a goalH5331 →
- longʼôreklengthH753 →
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Here, I. The people of God express the deep concern they had for the ruins of the temple, more than for any other of their calamities; the interests of God's house lay nearer their hearts than those of their own (Lam 5:17, Lam 5:18): For this our heart is faint, and sinks under the load of its own heaviness;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-22