But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
Parallel translations
- KJV But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
- BSB But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
- NKJV But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, And my Lord has forgotten me.”
- NASB ¶But Zion said, “The Lord has abandoned me, And the Lord has forgotten me.”
- NLT Yet Jerusalem says, “The Lord has deserted us; the Lord has forgotten us.”
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Quick answer
Zion complains that the LORD has forsaken and forgotten her, voicing the despair of God's people in exile.
Overview
In contrast to the song of joy, Zion gives voice to her sense of abandonment. Her lament is honest and sets up God's tender reply in the following verses. Such cries of feeling forsaken are answered not by denial but by God's faithful love, fully displayed when Christ Himself bore forsakenness (Matthew 27:46) so that His people never finally would.
Cross-references & the web
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- Rom 11:1–5I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Isa 40:27Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”
- Lam 5:20Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?
- Ps 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
- Jer 23:39therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.
- Ps 89:38–46But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
- Ps 22:1For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
- Ps 77:6–9I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
- Ps 13:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
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