Psalms 42:9

World English Bible (2000)

I will ask 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 pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 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?
  • Ps 18:2 : 2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
  • Job 30:26-31 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness. 27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me. 28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. 29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. 30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat. 31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
  • Lam 5:1-9 : 1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us. 5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. 11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. 13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. 16 The crown is 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 bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
  • Ps 62:2 : 2 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress-- I will never be greatly shaken.
  • Ps 62:6-7 : 6 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken. 7 With God is my salvation and my honor. 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, withheld his compassion?" Selah.
  • Ps 78:35 : 35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
  • Ps 88:9 : 9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 Then I returned and saw 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, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by 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, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
  • Ps 44:23-24 : 23 Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever. 24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
  • Ps 13:1 : 1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me 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 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 28:1 : 1 To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

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    1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

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    10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

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    24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

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    9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

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  • Ps 143:3-4
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    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

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