Psalm 88:14
New International Version
Why, LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me?

New Living Translation
O LORD, why do you reject me? Why do you turn your face from me?

English Standard Version
O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me?

Berean Standard Bible
Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

King James Bible
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

New King James Version
LORD, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

New American Standard Bible
LORD, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

NASB 1995
O LORD, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

NASB 1977
O LORD, why dost Thou reject my soul? Why dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

Legacy Standard Bible
O Yahweh, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

Amplified Bible
O LORD, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

Christian Standard Bible
LORD, why do you reject me? Why do you hide your face from me?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
LORD, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

American Standard Version
Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not forget my soul, LORD JEHOVAH, and do not turn your face from me!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my prayer, and turn thy face away from me?

Contemporary English Version
Why do you reject me? Why do you turn from me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?

English Revised Version
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Why do you reject my soul, O LORD? Why do you hide your face from me?

Good News Translation
Why do you reject me, LORD? Why do you turn away from me?

International Standard Version
Why, LORD, have you rejected me? Why have you hidden your face from me?

JPS Tanakh 1917
LORD, why castest Thou off my soul? Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?

Literal Standard Version
Why, O YHWH, do You cast off my soul? You hide Your face from me.

Majority Standard Bible
Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

New American Bible
Why do you reject my soul, LORD, and hide your face from me?

NET Bible
O LORD, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?

New Revised Standard Version
O LORD, why do you cast me off? Why do you hide your face from me?

New Heart English Bible
LORD, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

Webster's Bible Translation
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?

Young's Literal Translation
Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You. 14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me? 15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.…

Cross References
Job 13:24
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

Psalm 13:1
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 43:2
For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy's oppression?

Psalm 44:9
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

Psalm 44:24
Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?


Treasury of Scripture

LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?

Lord

Psalm 43:2
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 77:7-9
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? …

Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

hidest

Psalm 13:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Psalm 44:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Psalm 69:17
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

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Psalm 88
1. A prayer containing a grievous complaint.














(14) Castest thou off.--The idea is that of throwing away something with loathing. (Comp. Psalm 43:2.)

Verse 14. - Lord, why cutest thou off my soul? The psalmist speaks here, like Job, as one aggrieved. What has he done to be "cast off"? He is evidently not aware of having sinned any grievous sin, and does not understand why he is visited with such grievous sufferings. Why hidest thou thy face from me? Perhaps it is his insensibility, his unconsciousness of real sins and shortcomings, that has drawn down upon the psalmist his chastisement.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Why,
לָמָ֣ה (lā·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

O LORD,
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

do You reject
תִּזְנַ֣ח (tiz·naḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2186: Reject, forsake, fail

me?
נַפְשִׁ֑י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

Why do You hide
תַּסְתִּ֖יר (tas·tîr)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5641: To hide, conceal

Your face
פָּנֶ֣יךָ (pā·ne·ḵā)
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face

from me?
מִמֶּֽנִּי׃ (mim·men·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of


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