Psalms 88:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:24 : 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
  • 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 43:2 : 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 44:24 : 24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
  • Ps 69:17 : 17 Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer? 8 Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing? 9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)
  • Matt 27:46 : 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?
  • Ps 44:9 : 9 But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 43:2
    81%

    2You 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 88:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

    16The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

  • Ps 13:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    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?

    2How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

  • Job 13:24
    80%

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

  • Ps 22:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    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?

    2O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

  • Ps 88:13
    79%

    13But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.

  • Ps 88:6-9
    4 verses
    78%

    6You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

    7The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

    8You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

    9My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

  • Ps 42:9
    78%

    9I 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 44:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

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

    24Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • Ps 89:46
    78%

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

  • Ps 10:1
    78%

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

  • Ps 143:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.

    8Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.

  • Ps 27:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

    9Let 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.

  • Ps 74:1
    77%

    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?

  • Ps 88:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1<A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

    2Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:

    3For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

  • Job 14:13
    76%

    13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Ps 42:11
    76%

    11Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

  • Ps 89:49
    76%

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

  • Ps 42:5
    75%

    5Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

  • Ps 38:21
    75%

    21Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Ps 102:10
    74%

    10Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

  • Ps 69:17
    74%

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

  • Jonah 2:4
    74%

    4For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

  • Ps 86:14
    74%

    14O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.

  • Ps 88:18
    74%

    18You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

  • Ps 6:3
    74%

    3My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

  • Ps 102:2
    74%

    2Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.

  • Ps 43:5
    74%

    5Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

  • Ps 142:4
    74%

    4Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

  • Ps 51:11
    74%

    11Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

  • Lam 3:17
    73%

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

  • Ps 141:8
    73%

    8But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.

  • Isa 40:27
    73%

    27Why 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?

  • Ps 28:1
    73%

    1<Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

  • Ps 31:22
    73%

    22And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • Ps 108:11
    73%

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

  • Ps 77:7
    73%

    7Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?