“Then, there is a wondered indignation. As said: "Why dost thou forget us forever, why dost thou so long forsake us?" Just as the prophet Isaiah 49:15 exclaims: "Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?"”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
Original
20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Modern
Preparing…
Teens
Preparing…
Kids
Preparing…
In context
18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
— Lamentations 5:20 —
21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.