Psalms 42:9
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
8 The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
10 Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
- KJV
- I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- WEB
- I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
- ASV
- I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- DARBY
- I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- BLB
- I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in mourning in the oppression of the enemy?”
- ÅB
- Jeg må si til Gud, min klippe: Hvorfor har du glemt meg? Hvorfor skal jeg gå i sørgeklær under fiendens trykk?
- OTB
- Jeg vil si til Gud, min klippe: «Hvorfor har du glemt meg?
Hvorfor må jeg gå omkring i sorg på grunn av fiendens undertrykkelse?» - B1930
- Jeg må si til Gud, min klippe: Hvorfor har du glemt mig? Hvorfor skal jeg gå i sørgeklær under fiendens trykk?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 38:6
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
Read in contextPsalms 18:2
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.
Read in contextPsalms 43:2
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?
Read in contextPsalms 62:2
He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.
Read in contextPsalms 28:1
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.
Read in contextPsalms 44:23–24
Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:27
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”?
Read in contextLamentations 5:1–16
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
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