Parallel Verses
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?
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?"
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?
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?”
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 But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 9 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? 10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 18:2
The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Psalm 43:2
You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Job 30:26-31
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
Psalm 13:1
Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?
Psalm 22:1-2
My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
Psalm 28:1
My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
Psalm 44:23-24
Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.
Psalm 55:3
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
Psalm 62:2
He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.
Psalm 62:6-7
He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.
Psalm 77:9
Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)
Psalm 78:35
In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.
Psalm 88:9
My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?
Isaiah 49:15
Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
Lamentations 5:1-16
Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.