Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
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Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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(44-25) Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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Passages linked to Psalms 44:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 13:24 Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
- Deuteronomy 32:20 He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
- Psalms 42:9 I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
- Exodus 2:23-24 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Psalms 10:1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
- Psalms 10:11 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
- Psalms 13:1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Psalms 43:1-4 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men. For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
- Psalms 74:23 Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
- Psalms 74:19 Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
- Isaiah 40:27-28 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?” Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
- Revelation 6:9-10 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest…
Psa 44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Ver. 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face?] God sometimes concealeth his love, as Joseph did, out of increasement of love; he retireth, but faith fetcheth him out, as the woman of Canaan did, Mar 7:24-25.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Hidest thou thy face, i.e. dost not regard our…
Hidest thou thy face, i.e. dost not regard our miseries, nor affordest us any pity or help.
Forgettest our affliction and our oppression, when we have not forgotten thee. This seems not well to become thy faithfulness and goodness.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Wherefore hidest thou thy face?.... See Psa 10:1;
Wherefore hidest thou thy face?.... See Psa 10:1;
and forgettest our affliction and our oppression. Not that the Lord does really forget either the persons of his people, which he cannot, since they are engraven on the palms of his hands, and a book of remembrance is written for them: nor the afflictions of his people; he knows their souls in adversity; he chooses them in the furnace of affliction; he makes all afflictions work together for good, and delivers out of them. But because deliverance is not immediately wrought, and they sometimes continue long under their afflictions and oppressions, they seem to be forgotten by him, as during the ten persecutions and the long reign of antichrist.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face] Show us…
Verse 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face] Show us the cause why thou withdrawest from us the testimony of thy approbation.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 44:24-25. Wherefore hidest thou thy face? — Dost…
Psa 44:24-25. Wherefore hidest thou thy face? — Dost not regard our miseries, nor afford us any pity or help? and forgettest our affliction — Actest as if thou didst forget, or overlook it, when we have not forgotten thee? Does this become thy faithfulness and goodness? For our soul is bowed down to the dust — Under prevailing grief and fear. We lie prostrate at our enemies’ feet. Our belly cleaveth unto the earth — We are not only thrown down to the earth, but we lie there. We cannot lift up ourselves, neither revive our own drooping spirits, nor recover ourselves out of our low and sad condition. And we lie exposed to be trodden on by every insulting foe.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Wherefore hidest thou thy face? - See the notes…
Wherefore hidest thou thy face? - See the notes at Psa 13:1. Why dost thou turn away from us, and refuse to aid us, and leave us to these unpitied sufferings?
And forgettest our affliction and our oppression - Our trials, and the wrongs that are committed against us. These are earnest appeals. They are the pleadings of the oppressed and the wronged. The language is such as man would use in addressing his fellow-men; and, when applied to God, it must be understood as such language. As used in the Psalms, it denotes earnestness, but not irreverence; it is solemn petition, not dictation; it is affectionate pleading, not complaint. It indicates depth of suffering and distress, and is the strongest language which could be employed to denote entire helplessness and dependence. At the same time, it is language which implies that the cause for which they suffered was the cause of God, and that they might properly call on him to interfere in behalf of his own friends.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. hidest thou thy face] In anger or indifference,…
24. hidest thou thy face] In anger or indifference, instead of shewing the light of Thy countenance in gracious help to Thy people (Psa_44:3; Psa_80:3).
our affliction and our oppression] Cp. Deu_26:7; Exo_3:7; Exo_3:9; 2Ki_13:4; 2Ki_14:26. The latter word occurs elsewhere in the Psalter only in Psa_42:9, Psa_43:2.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Wherefore hidest thou thy face. (comp. Psa_13:1 Psa_27:9 Psa_69:17,…
Wherefore hidest thou thy face. (comp. Psa_13:1 Psa_27:9 Psa_69:17, etc.) And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?. (see Psa_13:1 Psa_74:19)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest…
Ver. 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? Not petulantly, but piteously and inquiringly, we may question the Lord when his dealings are mysterious. We are permitted to order our case with arguments, and plead the right before the face of the august Majesty. Why, Lord, dost thou become oblivious of thy children's woes? This question is far more easily asked than answered; it is hard, indeed, in the midst of persecution to see the reason why we are left to suffer so severely.
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Ver. 24. Reasons for the withdrawal of divine comfort.
Psalms 44:25*
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