Psalms 44:24
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And forget our affliction and oppression?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
In Context
23Awake! why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise! cast us not off for ever!
25Our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaveth to the earth.
Cross References
Job 13:24Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And account me as thine enemy?
Psalms 10:11He saith in his heart, “God doth forget; He hideth his face; he doth never see it.”
Psalms 35:23Arouse thyself; awake for my defence! My God and my Lord, awake to my cause!
Psalms 43:1Judge me, O God! and defend my cause against a merciless nation! Deliver me from unjust and deceitful men!
Psalms 74:23Forget not the clamor of thine adversaries,—The noise of thine enemies, which continually increaseth!
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 →