For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Parallel translations
- KJV How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
- BSB For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- NKJV How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- NASB How long, Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- NLT O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Job 13:24Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
- Lam 5:20Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?
- Ps 89:46How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
- Ps 94:3–4Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
- Ps 22:1–2For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
- Ps 80:4Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
- Ps 44:24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
- Ps 35:17Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
- Ps 6:3My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh — how long?
- Ps 74:1A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
- Ps 10:12Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
- Ps 85:5Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
- Isa 59:2But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
- Ps 90:14Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
- Deut 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
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