Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
I say to God my rock, 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an 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?"
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?
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?"
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 42:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
8 By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song is with me, A prayer to the God of my life. 9 I say to God my rock, 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy? 10 With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 38:6
I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.
Psalm 18:2
Jehovah is my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God is my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.
Psalm 43:2
For thou art the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?
Job 30:26-31
When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
Psalm 13:1
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?
Psalm 22:1-2
To the Overseer, on 'The Hind of the Morning.' -- A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?
Psalm 28:1
By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.
Psalm 44:23-24
Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
Psalm 55:3
Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.
Psalm 62:2
Only -- He is my rock, and my salvation, My tower, I am not much moved.
Psalm 62:6-7
Only -- He is my rock and my salvation, My tower, I am not moved.
Psalm 77:9
Hath God forgotten His favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.
Psalm 78:35
And they remember that God is their rock, And God Most High their redeemer.
Psalm 88:9
Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors is power, and they have no comforter.
Isaiah 40:27
Why sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? 'My way hath been hid from Jehovah, And from my God my judgment passeth over.'
Isaiah 49:15
Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.
Lamentations 5:1-16
Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.