Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered 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?
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?
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 to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you. 14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me? 15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 13:24
Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
Psalm 13:1
Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?
Psalm 43:2
You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Psalm 44:24
Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
Psalm 44:9
But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.
Psalm 69:17
Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.
Psalm 77:7-9
Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?
Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?