Lamentations 5:20

20 quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri derelinques nos in longitudinem dierum

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 propter montem Sion quia disperiit vulpes ambulaverunt in eo

19 tu autem Domine in aeternum permanebis solium tuum in generatione et generatione

20 quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri derelinques nos in longitudinem dierum

21 converte nos Domine ad te et convertemur innova dies nostros sicut a principio

22 sed proiciens reppulisti nos iratus es contra nos vehementer