Psalms 88:14

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:24 : 24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
  • Ps 13:1 : 1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
  • 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 44:24 : 24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
  • Ps 69:17 : 17 Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more? 8 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.
  • Matt 27:46 : 46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
  • Ps 44:9 : 9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 43:2
    81%

    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 88:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

    16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

  • Ps 13:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

    2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

  • Job 13:24
    80%

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

  • Ps 22:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    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 88:13
    79%

    13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

  • Ps 88:6-9
    4 verses
    78%

    6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

    7 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

    8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

    9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

  • Ps 42:9
    78%

    9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

  • Ps 44:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    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 89:46
    78%

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

  • Ps 10:1
    78%

    1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

  • Ps 143:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

    8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

  • Ps 27:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

    9 Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

  • Ps 74:1
    77%

    1 God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

  • Ps 88:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1 Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

    2 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.

    3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

  • Job 14:13
    76%

    13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Ps 42:11
    76%

    11 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

  • Ps 89:49
    76%

    49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

  • Ps 42:5
    75%

    5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

  • Ps 38:21
    75%

    21 Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

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

  • Ps 102:10
    74%

    10 Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

  • Ps 69:17
    74%

    17 Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

  • Jonah 2:4
    74%

    4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

  • Ps 86:14
    74%

    14 God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

  • Ps 88:18
    74%

    18 You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.

  • Ps 6:3
    74%

    3 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?

  • Ps 102:2
    74%

    2 Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

  • Ps 43:5
    74%

    5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God. For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.

  • Ps 142:4
    74%

    4 Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

  • Ps 51:11
    74%

    11 Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy Spirit from me.

  • Lam 3:17
    73%

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

  • Ps 141:8
    73%

    8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.

  • Isa 40:27
    73%

    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?"

  • Ps 28:1
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 31:22
    73%

    22 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

  • Ps 108:11
    73%

    11 Haven't you rejected us, God? You don't go forth, God, with our armies.

  • Ps 77:7
    73%

    7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?