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Lamentations 5:20-22
Common English Bible
Lamentations 5:20-22
Common English Bible
20 Why do you forget us continually;
why do you abandon us for such a long time?
21 Return us, Lord, to yourself. Please let us return![a]
Give us new days, like those long ago—
22 unless you have completely rejected us,
or have become too angry with us.[b]
Footnotes
- Lamentations 5:21 Or and we will return or so that we can return
- Lamentations 5:22 Or But instead you have completely rejected us, become too angry with us, or Because if you have completely rejected us, have become too angry with us.
Lamentations 5:20-22
King James Version
Lamentations 5:20-22
King James Version
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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