Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?
New American Standard Bible
Why do You
King James Version
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Holman Bible
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?
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?
Darby Translation
Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face 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.
Themes
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 88:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Of Desperation
13 But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee. 14 Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?
Psalm 13:1
How long, O 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 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 now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
Psalm 69:17
And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily.
Psalm 77:7-9
Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more?
Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?