Parallel Verses
Amplified
I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
New American Standard Bible
Why do I go
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?
Holman Bible
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?”
International Standard Version
I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"
A Conservative Version
I will say to God my rock, Why have thou 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?
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?
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?
Julia Smith Translation
I will say to God my rock, Wherefore didst thou forget me? wherefore darkened shall I go for the oppression of the enemy?
King James 2000
I will say unto God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Lexham Expanded Bible
I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?"
Modern King James verseion
I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the cruelty of the enemy?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will say unto God my strength, "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?"
NET Bible
I will pray to God, my high ridge: "Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?"
New Heart 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?"
The Emphasized Bible
I will say onto GOD, - my rock, Wherefore hast thou forgotten me? Wherefore in gloom should I go, because of oppression by the enemy?
Webster
I will say to 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?"
Youngs Literal Translation
I say to God my rock, 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 42:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
8
Yet the Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song will be with me,
A prayer to the God of my life.
I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,
While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 38:6
I am bent over and greatly bowed down;
I go about mourning all day long.
Psalm 18:2
The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and the One who rescues me;
My God, my rock and strength in whom I trust and take refuge;
My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower—my stronghold.
Psalm 43:2
For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Job 30:26-31
“When I expected good, then came evil [to me];
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
Psalm 13:1
How long will You hide Your face from me?
Psalm 22:1-2
Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalm 28:1
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit (grave).
Psalm 44:23-24
Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awaken, do not reject us forever.
Psalm 55:3
Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the pressure of the wicked;
For they bring down trouble on me,
And in anger they persecute me.
Psalm 62:2
He alone is my rock and my salvation,
My defense and my strong tower; I will not be shaken or disheartened.
Psalm 62:6-7
He only is my rock and my salvation;
My fortress and my defense, I will not be shaken or discouraged.
Psalm 77:9
Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.
Psalm 78:35
And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer.
Psalm 88:9
My eye grows dim with sorrow.
O Lord, I have called on You every day;
I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I looked again and considered all the acts of oppression that were being practiced under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.
Isaiah 40:27
Why, O Jacob, do you say, and declare, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?
Isaiah 49:15
[The Lord answered] “Can a woman forget her nursing child
And have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.
Lamentations 5:1-16
Look, and see our reproach (national disgrace)!