Psalms 88:14
Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
BSB
ASV
Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?
KJV
Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
"Why, O Lord, dost thou repel my prayer," that this cup should not pass from me?
Lord, why castest thou oft my soul? Hast thou not aforetime chosen me, wilt thou now reject me? Shall thine elect ones become thy reprobates? Dost thou, like changeable men, give a writing of divorcement to those whom thy love has espoused? Can thy beloveds become thy cast offs? Why hidest thou thy face from me? Wilt thou not so much as look upon me? Canst thou not afford me a solitary smile? Why this severity to one who has in brighter days basked in the light of thy favour?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Matthew 27:46About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
leads to
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His…
Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days,…
At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
Through
Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
leads to
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
Through
Psalms 43:2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
leads to
I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
