Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest 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?

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?

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Cry Of Desperation

13 And I, unto Thee, O Jehovah, I have cried, And in the morning doth my prayer come before Thee. 14 Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me. 15 I am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.


Cross References

Job 13:24

Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

Psalm 13:1

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

Psalm 43:2

For thou art the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?

Psalm 44:24

Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,

Psalm 44:9

In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.

Psalm 69:17

And hide not Thy face from Thy servant, For I am in distress -- haste, answer me.

Psalm 77:7-9

To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more?

Matthew 27:46

and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'

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