Psalms 42:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 18:2 : 2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
  • Job 30:26-31 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came. 27 My insides boiled and did not rest: the days of affliction confronted me. 28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. 29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to owls. 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. 31 My harp is also turned to mourning, and my flute to the voice of those who weep.
  • Lam 5:1-9 : 1 Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; consider and behold our disgrace. 2 Our inheritance is given to strangers, our houses to foreigners. 3 We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows. 4 We have drunk our own water for money; our wood is sold to us. 5 Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest. 6 We have given our hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. 9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. 10 Our skin is black as an oven because of the terrible famine. 11 They ravished the women in Zion, the young women in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes were hung up by their hands; the faces of elders were not honored. 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children stumbled under the loads of wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. 15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. 16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
  • Ps 55:3 : 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
  • Ps 62:2 : 2 He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.
  • Ps 62:6-7 : 6 He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved. 7 In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
  • Ps 77:9 : 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah.
  • Ps 78:35 : 35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
  • Ps 88:9 : 9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction; LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands to you.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.
  • Isa 40:27 : 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.
  • Ps 44:23-24 : 23 Awake, why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off forever. 24 Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
  • Ps 13:1 : 1 How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 28:1 : 1 To you I cry, O LORD my rock; do not be silent to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

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    1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

    2 For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Ps 42:10-11
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    10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

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  • Ps 42:2-8
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    81%

    2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

    3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

    4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept a feast.

    5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.

    6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

    7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls: all Your waves and billows have gone over me.

    8 Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

  • Ps 13:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

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  • Ps 88:14
    78%

    14 LORD, why do you cast off my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

  • Ps 22:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

    2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent.

  • Job 13:24
    77%

    24 Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

  • Ps 44:24
    77%

    24 Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

  • Ps 43:4-5
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    4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; yes, upon the harp I will praise you, O God my God.

    5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

  • Ps 77:9
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    9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah.

  • Ps 28:1
    76%

    1 To you I cry, O LORD my rock; do not be silent to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    75%

    3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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

  • Lam 3:17
    75%

    17 You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Ps 69:3
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    3 I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • Ps 108:11
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    11 Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? And will not you, O God, go forth with our hosts?

  • Ps 27:9
    74%

    9 Do not hide Your face from me; do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help. Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

  • Ps 13:4
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    49 Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?

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    3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • Ps 10:1
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    1 Why do You stand afar off, O LORD? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

  • Ps 38:21
    74%

    21 Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.

  • Ps 77:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my hand was stretched out in the night and did not rest; my soul refused to be comforted.

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    74%

    14 But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.

  • Ps 74:1
    73%

    1 O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

  • Ps 9:13
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    13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death:

  • Ps 61:2
    73%

    2 From the ends of the earth I will cry to you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

  • 2 Sam 22:2
    73%

    2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;

  • Lam 1:21
    73%

    21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

  • Ps 71:11
    73%

    11 Saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

  • Ps 62:7
    73%

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    13 From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Isa 40:27
    73%

    27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

  • Isa 38:14
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    14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

  • Ps 30:8
    73%

    8 I cried out to you, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication.

  • Ps 60:10
    73%

    10 Will You not, O God, who had cast us off? And You, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

  • Job 9:27
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    27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and console myself:

  • Ps 89:46
    73%

    46 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Shall your wrath burn like fire?