Psalms 44:24 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 44:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

ASV

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

WEB

Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?

YLT

Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,

DBT

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

About this book

Old Testament

▾

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.

Book overview →Read full book →Read chapter 44 →

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Featured studies

loading…

Cross-references

19 verses on the floor

Psalms 13:1
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Isaiah 45:15
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Job 13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Psalms 10:1
Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Lamentations 5:20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

Show all 19 cross-references ▾

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

Cross-references

loading…

Voices2

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Some observe that most of the psalms that are entitled Maschil--psalms of instruction, are sorrowful psalms; for afflictions give instructions, and sorrow of spirit opens the ear to them. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest and teachest.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This style of addressing God, as indifferent, is frequent (Ps 3:7; However low their condition, God is appealed to, on the ground, and for the honor, of His mercy.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

On this verse

loading…

Words4

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H390612× in canon H604036× in canon H564180× in canon H7911102× in canon

The quotation web

loading…

The walk8

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.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: Psalms 44 →