Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou cast off my soul? wilt thou hide 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?
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?
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 And to thee, O Jehovah, I cried, and in the morning shall my prayer anticipate thee. 14 Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou cast off my soul? wilt thou hide thy face from me? 15 I am poor and expiring from youth: I bore thy terrors; I shall be perplexed.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 13:24
Why wilt thou hide thy face, and reckon me for an enemy to thee?
Psalm 13:1
To the overseer; chanting of David.
Psalm 43:2
For thou the God of my strength: why didst thou reject me? wherefore darkened shall I go about for the oppression of the enemy?
Psalm 44:24
Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression?
Psalm 44:9
But thou didst reject, and thou wilt shame us, and not go forth with our armies.
Psalm 69:17
And thou wilt not hide thy face from thy servant; for straits are to me.: hasten to answer me.
Psalm 77:7-9
Will Jehovah reject forever? and will he no more add to be satisfied?
Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani I this is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?