Psalms 42:9

I say to God my rock, 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

In Context

8By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song [is] with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

10With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where [is] thy God?'

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Cross References

Psalms 13:1To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? — for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

Psalms 22:1To the Overseer, on 'The Hind of the Morning.' — A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?

Psalms 38:6I have been bent down, I have been bowed down — unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.

Psalms 44:23Stir up — why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

Psalms 62:2Only — He [is] my rock, and my salvation, My tower, I am not much moved.

Psalms 77:9Hath God forgotten [His] favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 42:7-11

Complaints and Consolations. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the… Read the whole commentary →

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