Parallel Verses

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?

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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Cry Of Desperation

13 But I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you. 14 O Lord, why do You reject my soul?
Why do You hide Your face from me?
15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.

Cross References

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

Psalm 13:1

How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalm 43:2

For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 44:24

Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

Psalm 44:9

But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies.

Psalm 69:17

Hide not your face from your servant; for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.

Psalm 77:7-9

"Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable?

Matthew 27:46

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

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