Psalms 44:24
Why do you hide your face, forgetting our stress and our misery?
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
In Context
23Rouse yourself, why do you sleep Lord? Awake, cast us not off forever.
25For we have sunk down to the dust, our bodies cling to the ground.
Cross References
Psalms 10:11The wicked say in their hearts that God has forgotten, has hidden his face, will see nothing.
Psalms 35:23Bestir you, awake, for my right my God, my Lord, for my cause.
Psalms 43:1Right me, defend my cause against a pitiless people. From the crafty and crooked, O God, deliver me.
Psalms 74:23Do not forget the uproar of your enemies, the din of your foes that ascends evermore.
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 →