Parallel Verses

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?

New American Standard Bible

I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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

I will say to God, my rock,
“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?”

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?

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?

Verse Info

Context Readings

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

8 The day Jehovah will command his mercy, and in the night the song with me; the prayer to the God of my life. 9 I will say to God my rock, Wherefore didst thou forget me? wherefore darkened shall I go for the oppression of the enemy? 10 With a breaking of my bones mine enemies reproached me, in their saying all the day, Where their God?


Cross References

Psalm 38:6

My stripes became loathsome: they flowed from the face of my folly.

Psalm 18:2

Jehovah is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, I will put my trust in him; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my height.

Psalm 43:2

For thou the God of my strength: why didst thou reject me? wherefore darkened shall I go about for the oppression of the enemy?

Job 30:26-31

For I hoped for good and evil will come: and I shall wait for light and darkness will come.

Psalm 13:1

To the overseer; chanting of David.

Psalm 22:1-2

To the overseer upon the first place of the dawn; chanting of David. My God, my God, wherefore forsookest thou me? far off from my salvation the words of my groaning.

Psalm 28:1

To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit

Psalm 44:23-24

Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever.

Psalm 55:3

From the voice of the enemy, from the face of the oppression of the unjust one: for they will bring down vanity upon me, for in anger they will lie in wait for me.

Psalm 62:2

Surely he my rock and my salvation, my height; I shall not be greatly moved.

Psalm 62:6-7

Surely he my rock and my salvation: my height; I shall not be moved.

Psalm 77:9

Did God forget to compassionate? or in anger did he gather his compassion? Silence.

Psalm 78:35

And they will remember that God is their Rock, and God the Most High redeemed them.

Psalm 88:9

Mine eye languished from affliction: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all the day, I stretched my hands to thee.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.

Isaiah 40:27

For what wilt thou say, O Jacob, and wilt thou speak, O Israel, My way was hid from Jehovah, and my judgment will pass over from my God.

Isaiah 49:15

Shall a woman forget her child, from pitying the son of her womb? also these shall forget, and I shall not forget thee.

Lamentations 5:1-16

Remember, O Jehovah, what was to us: look and see our reproach.

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