20 (A)Why do You forget us forever,
And forsake us for so long a time?
21 (B)Turn us back to You, O Lord, and we will be [a]restored;
Renew our days as of old,
22 Unless You have utterly rejected us,
And are very angry with us!

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 5:21 returned

20 Why do you always forget us?(A)
    Why do you forsake(B) us so long?
21 Restore(C) us to yourself, Lord, that we may return;
    renew our days as of old
22 unless you have utterly rejected us(D)
    and are angry with us beyond measure.(E)

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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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