Psalms 42:9

In 11 translations

BSB

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

KJV

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

WEB

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

ASV

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

LSV

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning in the oppression of an enemy?”

YLT

I say to God my rock, 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?

DBY

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?El

DRC41:10

I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?

GNV

I wil say vnto God, which is my rocke, Why hast thou forgotten mee? why goe I mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me?

JPS42:10

I will say unto God my Rock: 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?'

LXXE41:10

I will say to God, Thou art my helper; why hast thou forgotten me? wherefore do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?

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WLC42:10

אוֹמְרָ֤ה ׀ לְאֵ֥ל סַלְעִי֮ לָמָ֪ה שְׁכַ֫חְתָּ֥נִי לָֽמָּה־קֹדֵ֥ר אֵלֵ֗ךְ בְּלַ֣חַץ אוֹיֵֽב׃KJV:Ps.42.9

LXX-Br41:10

ἐρῶ τῷ Θεῷ, ἀντιλήπτωρ μου εἶ, διατί μου ἐπελάθου; ἱνατί σκυθρωπάζων πορεύομαι ἐν τῷ ἐκθλίβειν τὸν ἐχθρόν μου;

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• Psalms 38:6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
• Psalms 18:2The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
• Psalms 43:2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
• Psalms 28:1To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
• Isaiah 40:27Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?
• Psalms 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.
• Lamentations 5:1–16Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace! Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows. We must buy…
• Psalms 44:23–24Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever. Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
• Psalms 78:35And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
• Psalms 62:6–7He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.
• Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
• Ecclesiastes 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
• Psalms 55:3at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.
• Psalms 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah
• Psalms 22:1–2My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning? I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
• Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

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