I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Parallel translations
- KJV I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- BSB I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
- NKJV I will say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
- NASB ¶I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
- NLT “O God my rock,” I cry, “why have you forgotten me? Why must I wander around in grief, oppressed by my enemies?”
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 38:6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
- Ps 43:2For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Ps 18:2Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Isa 40:27Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”
- Ps 28:1By David. To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
- Lam 5:1–16Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
- Ps 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress — I will never be greatly shaken.
- Ps 44:23–24Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
- Ps 55:3Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
- Isa 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
- Ps 78:35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
- Ps 88:9My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
- Ps 13:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Ps 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.
- 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?
- Eccl 4:1Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
- Job 30:26–31When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Ps 62:6–7He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
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