Psalms 44:24

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Why do you hideand forget our affliction and oppression?

Hebrew Names Version
Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?

King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

English Standard Version
Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

New Century Version
Why do you hide from us? Have you forgotten our pain and troubles?

New English Translation
Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?

Amplified Bible
Why do You hide Your face And forget our affliction and our oppression?

New American Standard Bible
Why do You hide Your face And forget our affliction and oppression?

World English Bible
Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our miserie and our affliction?

Legacy Standard Bible
Why do You hide Your faceAnd forget our affliction and our oppression?

Contemporary English Version
Why do you keep looking away? Don't forget our sufferings and all of our troubles.

Complete Jewish Bible
Wake up, Adonai! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself! Don't thrust us off forever.

Darby Translation
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Easy-to-Read Version
Why are you hiding from us? Have you forgotten our pain and troubles?

George Lamsa Translation
Turn not thy face from us, and forget not our humiliation and our oppression;

Good News Translation
Why are you hiding from us? Don't forget our suffering and trouble!

Lexham English Bible
Why do you hide your face? Have you forgotten our misery and our oppression?

Literal Translation
Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and distress?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore hydest thou thy face? wilt thou clene forget oure misery and oppressio?

American Standard Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Bible in Basic English
Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our affliction, and our oppression?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
wherfore hydest thou thy face, and forgettest our miserie and tribulation?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Wherefore turnest thou thy face away, and forgettest our poverty and our affliction?

English Revised Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whi turnest thou awei thi face? thou foryetist oure pouert, and oure tribulacioun.

Update Bible Version
Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?

Webster's Bible Translation
Why hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

New King James Version
Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?

New Living Translation
Why do you look the other way? Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression?

New Life Bible
Why do You hide Your face? Why do You forget our troubles and our suffering?

New Revised Standard
Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(43-24) Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?

Revised Standard Version
Why dost thou hide thy face? Why dost thou forget our affliction and oppression?

Young's Literal Translation
Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Why do You hide Your face And forget our affliction and our oppression?

Contextual Overview

¹⁷All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant. ¹⁸Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path. ¹⁹But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness. ²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, ²¹would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart? ²²Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. ²³Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever. ²⁴Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression?²⁵For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth. ²⁶Rise up, be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Wherefore: Psalms 10:1, Psalms 10:11, Psalms 13:1, Psalms 43:1-4, Deuteronomy 32:20, Job 13:24

forgettest: Psalms 74:19, Psalms 74:23, Exodus 2:23, Exodus 2:24, Isaiah 40:27, Isaiah 40:28, Revelation 6:9, Revelation 6:10

Reciprocal: Psalms 27:9 - Hide Psalms 42:9 - Why hast Psalms 69:17 - hide Psalms 88:14 - hidest Psalms 142:6 - for I am Isaiah 45:15 - a God Lamentations 5:20 - dost Amos 7:2 - for Mark 4:38 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 44:29
So if you take this one from me as well and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'

Genesis 44:34
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore hidest thou thy face?.... See Psalms 10:1;

[and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression. Not that the Lord does really forget either the persons of his people, which he cannot, since they are engraven on the palms of his hands, and a book of remembrance is written for them: nor the afflictions of his people; he knows their souls in adversity; he chooses them in the furnace of affliction; he makes all afflictions work together for good, and delivers out of them. But because deliverance is not immediately wrought, and they sometimes continue long under their afflictions and oppressions, they seem to be forgotten by him, as during the ten persecutions and the long reign of antichrist.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore hidest thou thy face? - See the notes at Psalms 13:1. Why dost thou turn away from us, and refuse to aid us, and leave us to these unpitied sufferings?

And forgettest our affliction and our oppression - Our trials, and the wrongs that are committed against us. These are earnest appeals. They are the pleadings of the oppressed and the wronged. The language is such as man would use in addressing his fellow-men; and, when applied to God, it must be understood as such language. As used in the Psalms, it denotes earnestness, but not irreverence; it is solemn petition, not dictation; it is affectionate pleading, not complaint. It indicates depth of suffering and distress, and is the strongest language which could be employed to denote entire helplessness and dependence. At the same time, it is language which implies that the cause for which they suffered was the cause of God, and that they might properly call on him to interfere in behalf of his own friends.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 44:24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face — Show us the cause why thou withdrawest from us the testimony of thy approbation.