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Psalms 42:9

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

KJV

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

ASV

יוֹמָ֤ם יְצַוֶּ֬ה יְהוָ֨ה חַסְדּ֗/וֹ וּ֭/בַ/לַּיְלָה שיר/ה שִׁיר֣/וֹ עִמִּ֑/י תְּ֝פִלָּ֗ה לְ/אֵ֣ל חַיָּֽ/י

Hebrew

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

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֣ל
'l
noun · 244×
וֹ
v
noun · 246×
חַי
chy
verb · 502×
י
y
noun · 77×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יוֹמָ֣ם
yvmm
noun · 50×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
עִם
'm
preposition · 1043×
צִוָּ֥ה
tsvh
verb · 489×
שִׁ֥יר
shyr
noun · 91×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 8:38 — What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
  • 2Sam 23:3 — The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
  • Eccl 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was
  • Isa 40:27 — Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
  • Job 30:28 — I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
  • Lam 5:1 — Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
  • Mark 15:34 — And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
  • Ps 18:2 — The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
  • Ps 28:1 — Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
  • Ps 38:6 — I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
  • Ps 38:6 — I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
  • Ps 43:2 — For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 43:2 — For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 44:23 — Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
  • Ps 44:24 — Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
  • Ps 62:2 — He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
  • Ps 74:1 — O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?