Psalms 44:24
(44:25) Wherefore wilt thou hide thy face, wilt thou forget our misery, and our oppression?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
In Context
23(44:24) Awake, wherefore wilt thou sleep, O Lord? arise, abandon us not for ever.
25(44:26) For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body cleaveth unto the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in this long time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their complaint came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Job 13:24Wherefore wilt thou hide thy face, and regard me as an enemy unto thee?
Psalms 10:11He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; he hath hidden his face; he will never see it.
Psalms 35:23Arouse thyself, and awake to do me justice, my God and my Lord, unto my cause.
Psalms 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: from the deceitful and unjust man do thou deliver me.
Psalms 74:23Forget not the voice of thy adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against 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 →