Psalms 44:24
Why turnest thou face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
In Context
23Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
25For our soul is humbled down to the dust : our belly cleaveth to the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 2:23Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.
Job 13:24Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?
Psalms 35:23Arise, and be attentive to my judgment : to my cause, my God, and my Lord.
Psalms 43:1A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy : deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.
Psalms 74:23Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth 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 →