Psalms 42:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I say to God my rock, `Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 For thou `art' the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?
  • Ps 18:2 : 2 Jehovah `is' my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God `is' my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.
  • Job 30:26-31 : 26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh. 27 My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction. 28 Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry. 29 A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich. 30 My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat, 31 And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.
  • Lam 5:1-9 : 1 Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach. 2 Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. 3 Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows. 4 Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come. 5 For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us. 6 `To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne. 8 Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand. 9 With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine. 11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah. 12 Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured. 13 Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled. 14 The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song. 15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. 16 Fallen hath the crown `from' our head, Wo `is' now to us, for we have sinned.
  • Ps 55:3 : 3 Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.
  • Ps 62:2 : 2 Only -- He `is' my rock, and my salvation, My tower, I am not much moved.
  • Ps 62:6-7 : 6 Only -- He `is' my rock and my salvation, My tower, I am not moved. 7 On God `is' my salvation, and my honour, The rock of my strength, my refuge `is' in God.
  • Ps 77:9 : 9 Hath God forgotten `His' favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.
  • Ps 78:35 : 35 And they remember that God `is' their rock, And God Most High their redeemer.
  • Ps 88:9 : 9 Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors `is' power, and they have no comforter.
  • Isa 40:27 : 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? `My way hath been hid from Jehovah, And from my God my judgment passeth over.'
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.
  • Ps 44:23-24 : 23 Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever. 24 Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
  • Ps 13:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' -- A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring? 2 My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.
  • Ps 28:1 : 1 By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

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