Lamentaciones 5:20

20 ¿Por qué te olvidarás para siempre de nosotros, y nos dejarás por largos días

Lamentaciones 5:20 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:20

Wherefore dost thou, forget us for ever
Since thou art firm, constant, and unchangeable, and thy love and covenant the same. God seems to forget his people when he afflicts them, or suffers them to be oppressed, and does not arise immediately for their help; which being deferred some time, looks like an eternity to them, or they fear it will ever be so; at least this they say to express their eager desire after his gracious presence, and to show how much they prize it:

[and] forsake us so long time?
or, "to length of days" ^F4? so long as the seventy years' captivity; which to be forsaken of God, or to seem to be forsaken of him, was with them a long time.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (Mymy Kral) "in longitudinem dierum", Pagninus, Montanus.

Lamentaciones 5:20 In-Context

18 Por el Monte de Sion que está asolado; zorras andan en él

19 Mas tú, SEÑOR, permanecerás para siempre; tu trono de generación en generación

20 ¿Por qué te olvidarás para siempre de nosotros, y nos dejarás por largos días

21 Vuélvenos, oh SEÑOR, a ti, y nos volveremos; renueva nuestros días como al principio

22 Porque repeliendo nos has desechado; te has airado contra nosotros en gran manera