Psalms 44:24
Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
In Context
23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
25For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
Psalms 35:23Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
Psalms 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
Psalms 74:23Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that 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 →