Psalms 44:24

24 Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?

Psalms 44:24 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
English Standard Version (ESV)
24 Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
New Living Translation (NLT)
24 Why do you look the other way? Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression?
The Message Bible (MSG)
24 Why do you bury your face in the pillow? Why pretend things are just fine with us?
American Standard Version (ASV)
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
24 Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our suffering and misery?
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
24 Why do You hide Yourself and forget our affliction and oppression?
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
24 Why do you turn your face away from us? Why do you forget our pain and troubles?

Psalms 44:24 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 44:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face?
&c.] See ( Psalms 10:1 ) ( 12:1 ) ;

[and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression.
Not that the Lord does really forget either the persons of his people, which he cannot, since they are engraven on the palms of his hands, and a book of remembrance is written for them: nor the afflictions of his people; he knows their souls in adversity; he chooses them in the furnace of affliction; he makes all afflictions work together for good, and delivers out of them. But because deliverance is not immediately wrought, and they sometimes continue long under their afflictions and oppressions, they seem to be forgotten by him, as during the ten persecutions and the long reign of antichrist.

Psalms 44:24 In-Context

22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
23 Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.
24 Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?
25 We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.
26 Rise up and help us; rescue us because of your unfailing love.

Cross References 3

  • 1. S Deuteronomy 32:20; Psalms 13:1; Job 13:24
  • 2. Lamentations 5:20
  • 3. S Deuteronomy 26:7; Psalms 42:9
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