Psalms 88:14 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 88:14

Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?

WEB

Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

YLT

Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me.

DBT

Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

15 verses on the floor

Job 13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Psalms 13:1
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalms 10:1
Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Psalms 43:2
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 44:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices1

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

): " Lord, why castest thou off my soul? What is it that provokes thee to treat me as one abandoned? Show me wherefore thou contendest with me. " He speaks it with wonder that God should cast off an old servant, should cast off one that was resolved not to cast him off: "No wonder men cast me off; but, Lord, why dost thou, whose gifts and callings are without repentance?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 88:14MAT 27:46 PSA 22:1
PSA 88:14MAT 27:46 HEB 5:7
PSA 88:14PSA 13:1 JOB 13:24
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 88:14MAT 27:46 ISA 53:10
PSA 88:14MAT 27:46 MRK 15:34
PSA 88:14MAT 27:46 PSA 71:11
PSA 88:14PSA 13:1 LAM 5:20
PSA 88:14PSA 43:2 PSA 42:9
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