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Psalms 44:24
24Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?
Psalms 44:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Why do you look the other way? Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression?
Context of Psalms 44:24
22Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. 23Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever. Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression? 25We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. 26Rise up and help us; rescue us because of your unfailing love.
Read all of Psalms 44Psalms 44:24 word by word
לָֽמָּה־פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר תִּשְׁכַּ֖ח עָנְיֵ֣נוּ וְֽלַחֲצֵֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 44:24
- Psalms 10:1Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
- Psalms 13:1How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Psalms 43:1Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked.
- Deuteronomy 32:20“I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.
- Job 13:24Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
- Psalms 74:19Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts; do not forget the lives of your afflicted people forever.
- Exodus 2:23During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
- Isaiah 40:27Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”?
- Revelation 6:9When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
Commentaries on Psalms 44:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face - Show us the cause why thou withdrawest from us the testimony of thy approbation.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face? - See the notes at Psalm 13:1. Why dost thou turn away from us, and refuse to aid us, and leave us to these unpitied sufferings? And forgettest our affliction and our oppression - Our trials, and the wrongs that are committed against us. These are earnest appeals. They are the pleadings of the oppressed and the wronged. The language is such as man would use in addressing his fellow-men; and, when applied to God, it must be…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-26Verses 17-26 In afflictions, we must not seek relief by any sinful compliance; but should continually meditate on the truth, purity, and knowledge of our heart-searching God. Hearts sins and secret sins are known to God, and must be reckoned for. He knows the secret of the heart, therefore judges of the words and actions. While our troubles do not drive us from our duty to God, we should not suffer them to drive us from our comfort in God. Let us take…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23-26In the end, God’s people can turn to the Lord and trust him for rescue. Their petition for God to remedy their situation is as strong as their lament about God’s rejection.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 23-2623-26. This style of addressing God, as indifferent, is frequent (Psa 3:7; 9:19; 13:1, &c.). However low their condition, God is appealed to, on the ground, and for the honor, of His mercy.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 44
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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