Lamentations 5:20

20 Why should thou forget us for ever and forsake us for such a long time?

Lamentations 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.

Lamentations 5:20 In-Context

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19 Thou, O LORD, shall remain for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20 Why should thou forget us for ever and forsake us for such a long time?

21 Turn us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as at the beginning.

22 For in stepping back thou hast rejected us; thou hast become very angry against us.