Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

Why do You hide Your face
And forget 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 sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

Cross References

Job 13:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

Exodus 2:23-24

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

Deuteronomy 32:20

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

Psalm 10:1

Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

Psalm 10:11

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

Psalm 13:1

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Psalm 42:9

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 43:1-4

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Psalm 74:19

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

Psalm 74:23

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

Isaiah 40:27-28

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

Revelation 6:9-10

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

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