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Psalm 44:24

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.
26Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.
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The cry about God’s hidden face names a burden within the people’s oppression: they suffer while the help they seek from him seems out of reach.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 13:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?Both prayers ask whether God has forgotten the sufferer and hidden his face, with Psalm 44 speaking for a people.
Isaiah 45:15Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’”Both texts speak of God hiding himself; Isaiah also names this hidden God as Israel’s Savior.
Lamentations 5:20Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?Both prayers ask why God seems to have forgotten a suffering people, addressing the complaint to him.
Job 13:24Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?Both ask why God hides his face; Job adds the fear that God regards him as an enemy.
Psalm 10:1Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?Both prayers question God’s hiddenness during trouble, when his help seems absent.
Deuteronomy 32:20He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.Both speak of God hiding his face; Deuteronomy names unfaithfulness as the reason, while Psalm 44:24 asks why.
Psalm 88:14LORD, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?Both prayers ask why God hides his face, with Psalm 88 also naming the distress of rejection.
Psalm 27:9Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.Both address God about his hidden face; Psalm 27 pleads against abandonment and recalls his past help.
Exodus 2:23–24In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to …Both passages describe an oppressed people crying to God from suffering that has yet to end.
Revelation 6:9–10When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which …Psalm 44’s surrounding lament and Revelation both describe people killed because of their allegiance to God.
Isaiah 40:27–28Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God”?Both voice Israel’s complaint that God overlooks their plight, using the language of hiddenness and disregard.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. injustice and anger. waiting.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Name one unresolved affliction in a prayer to God

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Encouragement

The question remains unanswered here. Yet these afflicted people still address God, and the surrounding prayer appeals to his loving kindness for help.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).