Psalm 44:24

Israel's Complaint

²³ Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not reject us forever.
²⁴ Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵ For our soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.

Hide Your Face

No

Job 13:24

“Why do You hide Your face
And consider me Your enemy?

Exodus 2:23-24

Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God.

Deuteronomy 32:20

“Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end shall be;
For they are a perverse generation,
Sons in whom is no faithfulness.

Psalm 10:1

Why do You stand afar off, O Lord?
Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

Psalm 10:11

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

Psalm 13:1

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 42:9

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

Psalm 43:1-4

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation;
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!

Psalm 74:19

Do not deliver the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beast;
Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.

Psalm 74:23

Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries,
The uproar of those who rise against You which ascends continually.

Isaiah 40:27-28

Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

Revelation 6:9-10

When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained;