Psalm 42:9 “I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in s…”

Psalm 42:9

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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?

World English Bible

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

I wil say vnto God, which is my rocke, Why hast thou forgotten mee? why goe I mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me?

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

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Cross references

“God”

Psalm 18:2 Psalm 28:1 Psalm 62:2 Psalm 78:35 Psalm 62:6 Psalm 62:7

Psalm 18:2 · BSB

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 28:1 · BSB

To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

Psalm 62:2 · BSB

He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.

Psalm 78:35 · BSB

And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

Psalm 62:6 · BSB

He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.

Psalm 62:7 · BSB

My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.

“Why hast”

Isaiah 40:27 Psalm 13:1 Psalm 77:9 Isaiah 49:15 Psalm 22:1 Psalm 22:2

Isaiah 40:27 · BSB

Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

Psalm 13:1 · BSB

How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 77:9 · BSB

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah

Isaiah 49:15 · BSB

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

Psalm 22:1 · BSB

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

Psalm 22:2 · BSB

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

“why go”

Psalm 38:6 Psalm 43:2 Psalm 88:9 Job 30:26–31

Psalm 38:6 · BSB

I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

Psalm 43:2 · BSB

For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

Psalm 88:9 · BSB

My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.

Job 30:26–31 · BSB

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

“because”

Lamentations 5:1–16 Psalm 55:3 Ecclesiastes 4:1

Lamentations 5:1–16 · BSB

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

Psalm 55:3 · BSB

at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they bring down disaster upon me and resent me in their anger.

Ecclesiastes 4:1 · BSB

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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