Psalms 88:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:24 : 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
  • Ps 13:1 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 44:24 : 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
  • Ps 69:17 : 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
  • Matt 27:46 : 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, ‹Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?› that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
  • Ps 44:9 : 9 ¶ But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Ps 88:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

    16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

  • Ps 13:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

    2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

  • 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

  • Ps 22:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1¶ To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?

    2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

  • 13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

  • Ps 88:6-9
    4 verses
    78%

    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

    7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.

    8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.

    9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

  • 9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.

    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

  • 46How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

  • 1¶ Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble?

  • Ps 143:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7¶ Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

    8Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

  • Ps 27:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8[When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

    9Hide not thy face [far] from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

  • 1¶ Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

  • Ps 88:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1¶ A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night before thee:

    2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

    3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

  • 13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

  • 49Lord, where [are] thy former lovingkindnesses, [which] thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

  • 5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.

  • 21Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

    4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • 10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

  • 17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

  • 4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  • 14O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent [men] have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

  • 18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into darkness.

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    3My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

  • 2Hide not thy face from me in the day [when] I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day [when] I call answer me speedily.

  • 5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

  • 4¶ I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was] no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

  • 11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

  • 17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

  • 8But mine eyes [are] unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

  • 27¶ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

  • 1¶ [A Psalm] of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

  • 22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

  • 11[Wilt] not [thou], O God, [who] hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

  • 7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?