Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I will say to God my rock, Why have thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
New American Standard Bible
Why do I go
King James Version
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Holman Bible
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?”
International Standard Version
I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"
American Standard Version
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Amplified
I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Bible in Basic English
I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Darby Translation
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Julia Smith Translation
I will say to God my rock, Wherefore didst thou forget me? wherefore darkened shall I go for the oppression of the enemy?
King James 2000
I will say unto God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Lexham Expanded Bible
I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?"
Modern King James verseion
I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the cruelty of the enemy?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will say unto God my strength, "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?"
NET Bible
I will pray to God, my high ridge: "Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?"
New Heart English Bible
I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
The Emphasized Bible
I will say onto GOD, - my rock, Wherefore hast thou forgotten me? Wherefore in gloom should I go, because of oppression by the enemy?
Webster
I will say to God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
World English Bible
I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
Youngs Literal Translation
I say to God my rock, 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 42:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
8 [Yet] LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, [even] a prayer to the God of my life. 9 I will say to God my rock, Why have thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 38:6
I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long.
Psalm 18:2
LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Psalm 43:2
For thou are the God of my strength. Why have thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Job 30:26-31
When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Psalm 13:1
How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 22:1-2
My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning?
Psalm 28:1
To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalm 44:23-24
Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever.
Psalm 55:3
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.
Psalm 62:2
He only is my rock and my salvation, my high tower. I shall not be greatly moved.
Psalm 62:6-7
He only is my rock and my salvation, my high tower. I shall not be moved.
Psalm 77:9
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
Psalm 78:35
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.
Psalm 88:9
My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.
Isaiah 40:27
Why do thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from LORD. And the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet I will not forget thee.
Lamentations 5:1-16
Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.