Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

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

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?

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 Wake up! Why are you asleep, Lord? Get up! Don't cast us off forever! 24 Why are you hiding your face? Why are you ignoring our affliction and oppression? 25 For we have collapsed in the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.


Cross References

Job 13:24

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

Exodus 2:23-24

The king of Egypt eventually died, and the Israelis groaned because of the bondage. They cried out, and their cry for deliverance from slavery ascended to God.

Deuteronomy 32:20

So he said: "Let me hide my face from them. I will observe what their end will be, because they are a perverted generation, children within whom there is no loyalty.

Psalm 10:1

Why do you stand far away, LORD? Why do you hide in times of distress?

Psalm 10:11

The wicked say to themselves, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

Psalm 13:1

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

Psalm 42:9

I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"

Psalm 43:1-4

You be my judge, God, and plead my case against an unholy nation; rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Psalm 74:19

Don't hand over the life of your dove to beasts; do not continuously forget your afflicted ones.

Psalm 74:23

Don't ignore the shout of those opposing you, The uproar of those who rebel against you continuously. To the Director: To the tune of "Do not Destroy!" A psalm of Asaph. A song.

Isaiah 40:27-28

"Jacob, why do you say and Israel, why do you complain "My predicament is hidden from the LORD, and my cause is ignored by my God.'?

Revelation 6:9-10

When the lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and the testimony they had given.

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