Psalms 44:24

What does Psalms 44:24 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 44:24 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Not available in this translation

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever.

v.24This passage

v.25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 32:20

    And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

  • Psalms 10:11

    He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten; He hideth his face, he will never see it.

  • Psalms 43:1

    Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

  • Revelation 6:9

    And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

  • Psalms 74:19

    Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever.

  • Exodus 2:23

    And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

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