Psalm 42:9

New English Translation

I will pray to God, my high ridge: “Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

Cross References

Psalm 13:1

How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?

Psalm 18:2

The Lord is my high ridge, my stronghold, my deliverer. My God is my rocky summit where I take shelter, my shield, the horn that saves me, and my refuge.

Psalm 28:1

To you, O Lord, I cry out! My protector, do not ignore me! If you do not respond to me, I will join those who are descending into the grave.

Psalm 38:6

I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.

Psalm 43:2

For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?

Psalm 55:3

because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.

Psalm 62:2

He alone is my protector and deliverer. He is my refuge; I will not be upended.

Psalm 77:9

Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has his anger stifled his compassion?”

Psalm 78:35

They remembered that God was their protector, and that the sovereign God was their deliverer.

Psalm 88:9

My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O Lord, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you.

Psalm 92:3

to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre, to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

So I again considered all the oppression that continually occurs on earth. This is what I saw: The oppressed were in tears, but no one was comforting them; no one delivers them from the power of their oppressors.

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say, Jacob, Why do you say, Israel, “The Lord is not aware of what is happening to me, My God is not concerned with my vindication”?

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!