Psalm 44:24 {43:24}
Good News Translation
Why are you hiding from us? Don't forget our suffering and trouble!

New Revised Standard Version
Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

Contemporary English Version
Why do you keep looking away? Don't forget our sufferings and all our troubles.

New American Bible
Why do you hide your face; why forget our pain and misery?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?

Wherefore

Psalm 10:1,11 Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble? . . .

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 43:1-4 A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:20 And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.

Job 13:24 Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

forgettest

Psalm 74:19,23 Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor. . . .

Exodus 2:23,24 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works. . . .

Isaiah 40:27,28 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? . . .

Revelation 6:9,10 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. . . .

Context
Redeem Us
23Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end. 24Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?25For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.…
Cross References
Job 13:24
Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

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 42:9
I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?

Psalm 88:14
Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

Psalm 89:46
How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?

Isaiah 45:15
Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.

Lamentations 5:20
Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

Psalm 44:23
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