Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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 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 Awaken! Why do You sleep, O Jehovah? Arise! Do not cast us off forever. 24 Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and distress? 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly holds fast to the earth.

Cross References

Job 13:24

Why do You hide Your face, and hold me for Your enemy?

Exodus 2:23-24

And it happened after many days the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because 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 perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness.

Psalm 10:1

Why do You stand afar off, O Jehovah? Will You hide in times of trouble?

Psalm 10:11

He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will not see forever!

Psalm 13:1

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? 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 cruelty of the enemy?

Psalm 43:1-4

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

Psalm 74:19

Do not deliver the soul of Your turtle dove to the multitude; forget not the congregation of Your poor forever.

Psalm 74:23

Forget not the voice of Your enemies; the noise of those who rise up against You keeps on increasing.

Isaiah 40:27-28

Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from Jehovah and my judgment has 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 those who had been slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held.

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