Psalms 44:24
Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
In Context
23Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever.
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground.
Cross References
Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Job 13:24Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?
Psalms 10:11He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.
Psalms 35:23Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice to me, to my cause, my God and my LORD.
Psalms 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Psalms 74:23Forget not the voice of thine adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against thee ascends continually.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 44:18-26
Israel's Appeal to God. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the… Read the whole commentary →