Psalms 44:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Job 13:24 : 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
  • Ps 10:1 : 1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?
  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
  • Ps 13:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?
  • Ps 42:9 : 9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
  • Ps 43:1-4 : 1 Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man. 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters? 3 O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents. 4 Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
  • Ps 74:19 : 19 O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.
  • Ps 74:23 : 23 Keep in mind the voice of your haters; the outcry of those who come against you goes up every day.
  • Isa 40:27-28 : 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause? 28 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.
  • Rev 6:9-9 : 9 And when the fifth stamp was undone, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for the word of God, and for the witness which they kept. 10 And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?
  • Exod 2:23-24 : 23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God. 24 And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
  • Deut 32:20 : 20 And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 23 Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

  • Ps 44:25-26
    2 verses
    82%

    25 For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

    26 Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.

  • 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • 20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

  • 14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

  • 1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

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  • 9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • Ps 10:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

    12 Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.

  • 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • Ps 44:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15 My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;

    16 Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

    17 All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • 1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

  • 1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

  • 7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

  • 13 And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?

  • Ps 44:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

    20 If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

  • 9 But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

  • 17 Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.

  • 46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

  • 9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

  • 22 Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.

  • 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

  • 49 Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

  • Jer 14:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

    20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

    21 Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.

  • Lam 3:43-45
    3 verses
    73%

    43 Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

    44 Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.

    45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

  • 24 For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt.> God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.

  • 10 Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.

  • 3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • 7 And our cry went up to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord's ear was open to the voice of our cry, and his eyes took note of our grief and the crushing weight of our work:

  • 11 Have you not sent us away from you, O God? and you go not out with our armies.

  • 14 But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

  • 9 Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

  • 9 Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.

  • 8 Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

  • 17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • 22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

  • 4 O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

  • 9 Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.