Psalms 42:9–10
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
I will say vnto God, My rocke, why hast thou forgotten me? why goe I mourning, because of the oppression of the enemy?
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
‖ As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproch mee: while they say dayly vnto me, Where is thy God?
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- ‖Alternative wordingOr, killing.
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From verse 9
- Psalms 38:6Rank 1 from verse 9
- Psalms 18:2Rank 2 from verse 9
2The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
2†The LORD is my rocke, and my fortresse, and my deliuerer: my God, my strength in whome I will trust, my buckler, and the horne of my saluation, and my high tower.
- Psalms 43:2Rank 3 from verse 9
- Isaiah 40:27Rank 4 from verse 9
- Lamentations 5:1–16Rank 5 from verse 9
1REMEMBER, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
1¶ Remember, O LORD, what is come vpon vs: consider and beholde our reproch.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants.
3We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes.
4†We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs.
5†Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest.
6We haue giuen the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7*Our fathers haue sinned and are not, and wee haue borne their iniquities.
8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand.
9We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10*‖Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.
11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah.
12Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured.
13They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14The Elders haue ceased from the gate, the young men from their musicke.
15The ioy of our heart is ceased, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16†The crowne is fallen from our head: Woe vnto vs, that wee haue sinned.
- Psalms 28:1Rank 6 from verse 9
- Psalms 44:23–24Rank 7 from verse 9
23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
23Awake, why sleepest thou, O LORD? arise, cast vs not off for euer.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our affliction, and our oppression?
- Psalms 62:2Rank 8 from verse 9
- Ecclesiastes 4:1Rank 9 from verse 9
1SO I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
1¶ *†So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done vnder the sunne; & behold the teares of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter: and on the side of their oppressours there was power, but they had no comforter.
- Isaiah 49:15Rank 10 from verse 9
15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
15†Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe? yea they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
- Job 30:26–31Rank 11 from verse 9
26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
26When I looked for good, then euill came vnto mee: and when I waited for light, there came darkenes.
27My bowels boyled and rested not: the dayes of affliction preuented mee.
28I went mourning without the Sunne: I stood vp, and I cried in the Congregation.
29*I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to ‖owles.
30My skinne is blacke vpon mee, and my bones are burnt with heat.
31My harpe also is turned to mourning, and my organe into the voyce of them that weepe.
- Psalms 13:1Rank 12 from verse 9
- Psalms 22:1–2Rank 13 from verse 9
1MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
1¶ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2†O my God, I crie in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
- Psalms 55:3Rank 14 from verse 9
- Psalms 62:6–7Rank 15 from verse 9
6He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
7In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
6He onely is my rocke and my saluation; he is my defence; I shall not bee moued.
7In God is my saluation, and my glorie: the rocke of my strength, and my refuge is in God.
- Psalms 77:9Rank 16 from verse 9
- Psalms 78:35Rank 17 from verse 9
- Psalms 88:9Rank 18 from verse 9
From verse 10
- Psalms 42:3Rank 1 from verse 10
17Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weepe betweene the porch and the altar, & let them say; Spare thy people O LORD, and giue not thine heritage to reproch; that the heathen should ‖rule ouer them: *Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
- Proverbs 12:18Rank 4 from verse 10
- Micah 7:10Rank 5 from verse 10
10Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
10‖*†Then she that is mine enemie shall see it, and shame shall couer her which said vnto mee; Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she bee troden downe, as the myre of the streets.
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Psalms 42:9
Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.
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The one true God.
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1. A mass of stone or a rocky place. 2. Figuratively, a secure refuge, strength, foundation, or cause of stumbling. 3. A title or figure for God or Christ.
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Sense 1: Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience. Sense 2: Used as an auxiliary verb.
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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
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Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of mourn, meaning to grieve, sorrow, lament, weep, or express distress. Sense 2: To show the effects of ruin and sorrow.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
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Psalms 42:10
1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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Sense 1: Shame, disgrace, dishonour, contempt, blame, reviling, or taunt. Sense 2: As a verb, to shame, insult, blame, or speak contemptuously against.
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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.
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The one true God.
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8 Yet the LORD will command his louing kindnes in the day time, and in the night his song shalbe with me, and my prayer vnto the God of my life.
9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
9I will say vnto God, My rocke, why hast thou forgotten me? why goe I mourning, because of the oppression of the enemy?
Selected passage10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
10‖ As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproch mee: while they say dayly vnto me, Where is thy God?
Selected passage11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
11Why art thou cast downe, O my soule? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.