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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Psalms 10:11

They think in their heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blasphemy;   God Continued...;   Infidelity;   Pride;   Wicked (People);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Self-Delusion;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jaazaniah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Foreknowledge;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Face;   Forget;   Omniscience;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He says to himself, “God has forgotten;he hides his face and will never see.”
Hebrew Names Version
He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
King James Version
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
English Standard Version
He says in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."
New Century Version
The wicked think, "God has forgotten us. He doesn't see what is happening."
New English Translation
He says to himself, "God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices."
Amplified Bible
He says to himself, "God has [quite] forgotten; He has hidden His face; He will never see my deed."
New American Standard Bible
He says to himself, "God has forgotten; He has hidden His face; He will never see it."
World English Bible
He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
Geneva Bible (1587)
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.
Legacy Standard Bible
He says in his heart, "God has forgotten;He has hidden His face; He will never see it."
Berean Standard Bible
He says to himself, "God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees."
Contemporary English Version
They say, "God can't see! He's got on a blindfold."
Complete Jewish Bible
He says in his heart, "God forgets, he hides his face, he will never see."
Darby Translation
He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see [it].
Easy-to-Read Version
They say to themselves, "God has forgotten about us. He is not watching. He will never see what we are doing."
George Lamsa Translation
He says in his heart, God has forgotten; he has turned away his face; he will never see it.
Good News Translation
The wicked say to themselves, "God doesn't care! He has closed his eyes and will never see me!"
Lexham English Bible
He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."
Literal Translation
He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will not see forever.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For he sayeth in his herte: Tush, God hath forgotten, he hath turned awaye his face, so yt he will neuer se it.
American Standard Version
He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten; He hideth his face, he will never see it.
Bible in Basic English
He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hath said in his heart: 'God hath forgotten; He hideth His face; He will never see.'
King James Version (1611)
Hee hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face, hee will neuer see it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He sayeth in his heart, tushe, the Lord hath forgotten: he hydeth away his face, and he wyll neuer see it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.
English Revised Version
He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For he seide in his herte, God hath foryete; he hath turned awei his face, that he se not in to the ende.
Update Bible Version
He says in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides his face; he will never see it.
Webster's Bible Translation
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it].
New King James Version
He has said in his heart, "God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see."
New Living Translation
The wicked think, "God isn't watching us! He has closed his eyes and won't even see what we do!"
New Life Bible
He says to himself, "God has forgotten. He has hidden His face and will never see it."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He hath said in his heart, GOD hath forgotten, - He hath veiled his face, Oh he hath never seen!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-32) For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face, not to see to the end.
Revised Standard Version
He thinks in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."
Young's Literal Translation
He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He says to himself, "God has forgotten; He has hidden His face; He will never see it."

Contextual Overview

1 Why, O Lord , do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? 2 In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor— let them be caught in the schemes they have devised. 3 For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart, those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord . 4 In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, "God will not seek it out"; all their thoughts are, "There is no God." 5 Their ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of their sight; as for their foes, they scoff at them. 6 They think in their heart, "We shall not be moved; throughout all generations we shall not meet adversity." 7 Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under their tongues are mischief and iniquity. 8 They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding places they murder the innocent. Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; 9 they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they seize the poor and drag them off in their net. 10 They stoop, they crouch, and the helpless fall by their might.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

said: Psalms 10:6, Mark 2:6, Luke 7:39

God: Psalms 64:5, Psalms 73:11, Psalms 94:7, Job 22:13, Job 22:14, Ecclesiastes 8:11, Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 9:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:4 - Ye Deuteronomy 29:19 - that he bless 1 Kings 22:13 - Behold now 2 Chronicles 18:12 - Behold Job 11:11 - he seeth Job 21:14 - they say Job 24:15 - No eye Psalms 13:4 - Lest Psalms 44:24 - Wherefore Psalms 53:1 - said Psalms 59:7 - who Psalms 73:8 - speak wickedly Psalms 74:23 - Forget Psalms 86:14 - and have Psalms 90:8 - Thou Psalms 139:11 - Surely Proverbs 19:28 - scorneth Isaiah 5:18 - draw Isaiah 29:15 - seek Isaiah 47:10 - thou hast said Jeremiah 23:24 - hide Ezekiel 7:22 - face Amos 8:7 - I will Amos 9:10 - The evil Zephaniah 1:12 - The Lord Malachi 2:17 - Where Malachi 3:13 - Your Romans 2:4 - despisest 1 Thessalonians 5:3 - Peace

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; children were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.
Numbers 24:22
yet Kain is destined for burning. How long shall Asshur take you away captive?"
Numbers 24:24
But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he also shall perish forever."
2 Kings 19:36
Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.
Ezra 4:2
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of families and said to them, "Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of King Esar-haddon of Assyria who brought us here."
Psalms 83:8
Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah
Isaiah 37:37
Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
Ezekiel 32:22
Assyria is there, and all its company, their graves all around it, all of them killed, fallen by the sword.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten,.... Meaning either his own sins, because they are not immediately punished; wherefore he hopes to go on for ever with impunity, but will be mistaken, for God will remember the iniquities of Babylon, and render to her double, Revelation 18:5; see Amos 7:17; or else the poor ones he oppresses; for though they seem for a while to be forgotten by God, they are not, a book of remembrance is written for them;

he hideth his face; that is, from his poor saints, which is true oftentimes; but then the use the wicked one makes of it is bad, namely, to insult them on that account, and to imagine that it is grateful to God, and doing him good service, to afflict and persecute them; and that God will never regard them, nor return to them more, as follows;

he will never see [it]; or them; he will never more look upon the poor, he will no more regard them, and take notice of them and their afflictions; than which nothing is more false; for though he hides his face for a moment, yet with everlasting kindness will he gather them to himself; and he beholds all their oppressions and afflictions, and not as a bare spectator; he sympathizes with them, and delivers them out of them. Or "he will never" the wickedness committed by the wicked; which is a very foolish thought, since what is done in the dark, and in the most secret manner, is seen by God, the darkness and the light are alike to him; he is all-seeing and ever-seeing, and everywhere seeing; and he it is that has made the eye, and shall not he see? Psalms 94:5; the sense of the whole in general is, that God takes no notice of good men or bad men, nor of what is done by either of them; he does not concern himself with the affairs of this world, which is an impious denial of divine Providence; see Ezekiel 9:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten - That is, this is his practical, habitual feeling. He acts as if God had forgotten, or as if God takes no knowledge of what is occurring in the earth. Compare Psalms 10:6.

He hideth his face - God has hidden his face; that is, he does not look on what is occurring.

He will never see it - That is, he will never see what is done. It cannot be supposed that any man would deliberately say either that the memory of God has failed, or that he will not see what is done upon the earth, but the meaning is, that this is the practical feeling of the wicked man; he acts as if this were so. He is no more restrained in his conduct than he would be if this were his deliberate conviction, or than if he had settled it in his mind that God is regardless of human actions. It is hardly necessary to say that this is a correct description of the conduct of wicked men. If they deliberately believed that God was regardless of human conduct, if they were certain that he would not behold what is done, their conduct would not be different from what it is now. They do not act as if his eye were upon them; they are not restrained by any sense of his presence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 10:11. God hath forgotten — He hath cast off this people, and he will never more re-establish them. So Sanballat thought.


 
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