Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
Parallel translations
- KJV LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
- BSB Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- NKJV Lord, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- NASB Lord, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- NLT O Lord, why do you reject me? Why do you turn your face from me?
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Cross-references · 8
- Job 13:24Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
- 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 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 44:24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
- Matt 27:46About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
- Ps 69:17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
- Ps 77:7–9“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
- Ps 44:9But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.
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