Psalm 42:9 {41:10}
Good News Translation
To God, my defender, I say, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go on suffering from the cruelty of my enemies?"

New Revised Standard Version
I say to God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mournfully because the enemy oppresses me?”

Contemporary English Version
You are my mighty rock. Why have you forgotten me? Why must enemies mistreat me and make me sad?

New American Bible
I will say to God, my rock: “Why do you forget me? Why must I go about mourning with the enemy oppressing me?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?

God

Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Psalm 28:1 A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 62:2,6,7 For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more. . . .

Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

Why hast

Psalm 13:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?

Psalm 22:1,2 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. . . .

Psalm 44:23,24 Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end. . . .

Psalm 77:9 Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?

Isaiah 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?

Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

why go

Psalm 38:6 I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.

Psalm 43:2 For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

Psalm 88:9 My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

Job 30:26-31 I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out. . . .

because

Psalm 55:3 At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.

Ecclesiastes 4:1 I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

Lamentations 5:1-16 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. . . .

Context
Blessed is He who Cares for the Poor
8In the daytime the Lord hath commanded his mercy; and a canticle to him in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life. 9I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?10Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who trouble me have reproached me; Whilst they say to me day by day: Where is thy God?…
Cross References
Job 30:28
I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.

Psalm 13:2
How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day?

Psalm 17:9
From the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul:

Psalm 18:2
The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Psalm 38:6
I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.

Psalm 43:2
For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

Psalm 44:24
Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?

Psalm 42:8
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