Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

New American Standard Bible

O Lord, why do You reject my soul?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

King James Version

LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

Holman Bible

Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

International Standard Version

Why, LORD, have you rejected me? Why have you hidden your face from me?

A Conservative Version

LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?

American Standard Version

Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?

Amplified


O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

Bible in Basic English

Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

Julia Smith Translation

Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou cast off my soul? wilt thou hide thy face from me?

King James 2000

LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? [Why] do you hide your face from me?

Modern King James verseion

O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

LORD, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me?

NET Bible

O Lord, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?

New Heart English Bible

LORD, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

The Emphasized Bible

Wherefore, O Yahweh, shouldst thou reject my soul? shouldst thou hide thy face from me?

Webster

LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

World English Bible

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

Youngs Literal Translation

Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me.

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Cry Of Desperation

13 But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee. 14 Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, and I am distracted.

Cross References

Job 13:24

Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?

Psalm 13:1

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

Psalm 43:2

For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 44:24

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

Psalm 44:9

But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;

Psalm 69:17

And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: answer me speedily.

Psalm 77:7-9

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

Matthew 27:46

but about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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