Psalm 88:14
Modern Translations
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 Study Bible
Why, O LORD, do You reject me? 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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

King James 2000 Bible
LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?

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

World English Bible
Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

American King James Version
LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?

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

A Faithful Version
O LORD, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

Darby Bible Translation
Why, O Jehovah, castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Lorde, why doest thou reiect my soule, and hidest thy face from me?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(88:13) O God, why abhorrest thou my soule: and why hidest thou thy face from me?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
LORDE, why puttest thou awaye my soule? Wherfore hydest thou thy face fro me?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Why, O YHWH, do You cast off my soul? You hide Your face from me.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou cast off my soul? wilt thou hide thy face from me?

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Do not forget my soul, LORD JEHOVAH, and do not turn your face from me!

Lamsa Bible
O LORD, forsake not my soul, and turn not thy face from me.

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

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
















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