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Psalms 44:24
24Why do you look the other way? Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression?
Psalms 44:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
- New International Version (NIV)Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and 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?
Context of Psalms 44:24
22But for your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep. 23Wake up, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Get up! Do not reject us forever. Why do you look the other way? Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression? 25We collapse in the dust, lying face down in the dirt. 26Rise up! Help us! Ransom 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 10:1O Lord, why do you stand so far away? Why do you hide when I am in trouble?
- Psalms 13:1O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?
- Psalms 43:1Declare me innocent, O God! Defend me against these ungodly people. Rescue me from these unjust liars.
- Deuteronomy 32:20He said, ‘I will abandon them; then see what becomes of them. For they are a twisted generation, children without integrity.
- Job 13:24Why do you turn away from me? Why do you treat me as your enemy?
- Psalms 74:19Don’t let these wild beasts destroy your turtledoves. Don’t forget your suffering people forever.
- Exodus 2:23Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God.
- Isaiah 40:27O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles? O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?
- Revelation 6:9When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of all who had been martyred for the word of God and for being faithful in their testimony.
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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