Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?

King James Version

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Holman Bible

Why do You hide Yourself
and forget our affliction and oppression?

International Standard Version

Why are you hiding your face? Why are you ignoring our affliction and oppression?

A Conservative Version

Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

American Standard Version

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Amplified


Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?

Bible in Basic English

Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

Darby Translation

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Julia Smith Translation

Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression?

King James 2000

Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?

Modern King James verseion

Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and distress?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wherefore hidest thou thy face? Wilt thou clean forget our misery and oppression?

NET Bible

Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?

New Heart English Bible

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

The Emphasized Bible

Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?

Webster

Why hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

World English Bible

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Youngs Literal Translation

Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,

Context Readings

Israel's Complaint

23 Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever! 24 Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground.

Cross References

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

Exodus 2:23-24

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

Deuteronomy 32:20

And he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

Psalm 10:1

Why, O LORD, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Psalm 10:11

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

Psalm 13:1

How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalm 42:9

I 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 defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!

Psalm 74:19

Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever.

Psalm 74:23

Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!

Isaiah 40:27-28

Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?

Revelation 6:9-10

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.

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