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Selected Verse: Psalms 44:24 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 44:24	Strong Concordance	Wherefore hidest [05641] thou thy face [06440], and forgettest [07911] our affliction [06040] and our oppression [03906]?
	King James	Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Wherefore hidest thou thy face? - See the notes at Psa 13:1. Why dost thou turn away from us, and refuse to aid us, and leave us to these unpitied sufferings? And forgettest our affliction and our oppression - Our trials, and the wrongs that are committed against us. These are earnest appeals. They are the pleadings of the oppressed and the wronged. The language is such as man would use in addressing his fellow-men; and, when applied to God, it must be understood as such language. As used in the Psalms, it denotes earnestness, but not irreverence; it is solemn petition, not dictation; it is affectionate pleading, not complaint. It indicates depth of suffering and distress, and is the strongest language which could be employed to denote entire helplessness and dependence. At the same time, it is language which implies that the cause for which they suffered was the cause of God, and that they might properly call on him to interfere in behalf of his own friends.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Wherefore hidest thou thy face? - See the notes at Psa 13:1. Why dost thou turn away from us, and refuse to aid us, and leave us to these unpitied sufferings?

And forgettest our affliction and our oppression - Our trials, and the wrongs that are committed against us. These are earnest appeals. They are the pleadings of the oppressed and the wronged. The language is such as man would use in addressing his fellow-men; and, when applied to God, it must be understood as such language. As used in the Psalms, it denotes earnestness, but not irreverence; it is solemn petition, not dictation; it is affectionate pleading, not complaint. It indicates depth of suffering and distress, and is the strongest language which could be employed to denote entire helplessness and dependence. At the same time, it is language which implies that the cause for which they suffered was the cause of God, and that they might properly call on him to interfere in behalf of his own friends.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Wherefore hidest thou thy face - Show us the cause why thou withdrawest from us the testimony of thy approbation.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Wherefore hidest thou thy face - Show us the cause why thou withdrawest from us the testimony of thy approbation.

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