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Redeem Us, O God

Psalms 44:24

In 11 translations

BSB
Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
KJV
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
WEB
Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
ASV
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
LSV
Why do You hide Your face? You forget our afflictions and our oppression,
YLT
Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
DBY
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
DRC43:24
Why turnest thou face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
GNV
Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our miserie and our affliction?
JPS44:25
Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
LXXE43:25
Wherefore turnest thou thy face away, and forgettest our poverty and our affliction?

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Original-language editions

WLC44:25
לָֽמָּה־פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר תִּשְׁכַּ֖ח עָנְיֵ֣נוּ וְֽלַחֲצֵֽנוּ׃KJV:Ps.44.24
LXX-Br43:25
Ἱνατί τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀποστρέφεις; ἐπιλανθάνῃ τῆς πτωχείας ἡμῶν καὶ τῆς θλίψεως ἡμῶν;

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
  • Deuteronomy 32:20He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
  • Psalms 42:9I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
  • Exodus 2:23–24After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God. So God heard their groaning, and He remembered…
  • Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
  • Psalms 74:23Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.
  • Psalms 43:1–4Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men. For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s…
  • Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
  • Psalms 10:1Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
  • Psalms 74:19Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
  • Revelation 6:9–10And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld. And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord,…
  • Isaiah 40:27–28Why 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”? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the…

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 44:25 in some Bibles
  • 44:24 in most Bibles

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