Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Why, LORD, have you rejected me? Why have you hidden your face from me?
New American Standard Bible
Why do You
King James Version
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Holman Bible
Why do You hide Your face from me?
A Conservative Version
LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?
American Standard Version
Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?
Amplified
O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?
Bible in Basic English
Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
Darby Translation
Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou cast off my soul? wilt thou hide thy face from me?
King James 2000
LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? [Why] do you hide your face from me?
Modern King James verseion
O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
LORD, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me?
NET Bible
O Lord, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?
New Heart English Bible
LORD, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, O Yahweh, shouldst thou reject my soul? shouldst thou hide thy face from me?
Webster
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
World English Bible
Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
Youngs Literal Translation
Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me.
Themes
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 88:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Of Desperation
13 As for me, I cry out to you LORD, and in the morning my prayer greets you. 14 Why, LORD, have you rejected me? Why have you hidden your face from me? 15 Since my youth I have been oppressed and in danger of death. I bear your dread and am overwhelmed.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?
Psalm 13:1
How long? LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Psalm 43:2
Since you are the God who strengthens me, why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"
Psalm 44:24
Why are you hiding your face? Why are you ignoring our affliction and oppression?
Psalm 44:9
However, you cast us off and made us ashamed! You did not even march with our armies!
Psalm 69:17
and do not ignore your servant, because I am in distress. Hurry to answer me!
Psalm 77:7-9
Will the Lord reject me forever and not show favor again?
Matthew 27:46
About three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani?", which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"