Lamentations 5:20

²⁰Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

Lamentations 5 closes the book with a communal prayer of lament, shifting from the poet's individual voice to the collective cry of Jerusalem's survivors. The chapter catalogs the city's devastation—hunger, slavery, dishonor, and the silence of God—without the earlier hope of restor

References· Lamentations 5

a: v.7 — Jeremiah 16:12, Jeremiah 31:29, Ezekiel 18:2, Jeremiah 14:20, Exodus 20:5, Matthew 23:32-36, Jeremiah 31:15, Genesis 42:36, Job 7:21, Zechariah 1:5
b: v.19 — Psalms 102:12, Psalms 45:6, Hebrews 1:8-12, Psalms 102:25-27, Psalms 145:13, Psalms 9:7, Revelation 1:8, 1 Timothy 1:17, Psalms 90:2, Habakkuk 1:12
c: v.21 — Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 85:4, Psalms 80:19, Jeremiah 31:18, Zechariah 8:3-6, Ezekiel 36:37, Habakkuk 3:2, Jeremiah 33:10, Ezekiel 11:19-20

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