Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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?

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 wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever. 24 Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression? 25 For our soul was bowed down to the dust: our belly was glued to the earth.

Cross References

Job 13:24

Why wilt thou hide thy face, and reckon me for an enemy to thee?

Exodus 2:23-24

And it will be in these many days, and the king of Egypt will die: and the sons of Israel will groan, from the work; and they will cry out, and their supplication will go up to God from the work.

Deuteronomy 32:20

And he will say, I will hide my face from them; I will see what shall be after them: For they a generation of perverseness, Sons no faith in them.

Psalm 10:1

Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou stand afar off? wilt thou hide for times in straits?

Psalm 10:11

Saying in his heart, God forgat: he hid his face; not seeing forever.

Psalm 13:1

To the overseer; chanting of David.

Psalm 42:9

I will say to God my rock, Wherefore didst thou forget me? wherefore darkened shall I go for the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 43:1-4

Judge me, O God, and contend my contention from a nation not godly: from the man of deceit and iniquity thou wilt deliver me.

Psalm 74:19

Thou wilt not give the soul of thy turtle-dove to the beast: the life of thy poor thou wilt not forget forever.

Psalm 74:23

Thou wilt not forget the voice of thine adversaries: the pride of them rising up against thee going up always

Isaiah 40:27-28

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.

Revelation 6:9-10

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of the slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they had:

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