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Psalm 42

Psa. 42:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I will say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto God
'el (Hebrew #410)
strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity)
KJV usage: God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in "-el."
Pronounce: ale
Origin: shortened from 352
my rock
cela` (Hebrew #5553)
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
KJV usage: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Pronounce: seh'-lah
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lofty
, Why hast thou forgotten
shakach (Hebrew #7911)
a primitive root; to mislay, i.e. to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention
KJV usage: X at all, (cause to) forget.
Pronounce: shaw-kakh'
Origin: or shakeach {shaw-kay'-akh}
me? why go
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
I mourning
qadar (Hebrew #6937)
to be ashy, i.e. dark-colored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)
KJV usage: be black(-ish), be (make) dark(-en), X heavily, (cause to) mourn.
Pronounce: kaw-dar'
Origin: a primitive root
because of the oppression
lachats (Hebrew #3906)
distress
KJV usage: affliction, oppression.
Pronounce: lakh'-ats
Origin: from 3905
of the enemy
'oyeb (Hebrew #341)
active participle of 340; hating; an adversary
KJV usage: enemy, foe.
Pronounce: o-yabe'
Origin: or (fully) owyeb {o-yabe'}
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Ministry on This Verse

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God.
Psa. 18:2• 2Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my *God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. (Psa. 18:2)
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Psa. 28:1• 1A Psalm of David. Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit. (Psa. 28:1)
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Psa. 62:2,6‑7• 2He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress: I shall not be greatly moved.
 6He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress: I shall not be moved.
 7With God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. (Psa. 62:2,6‑7)
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Psa. 78:35• 35And they remembered that God was their rock, and *God, the Most High, their redeemer. (Psa. 78:35)
Why hast.
Psa. 13:1• 1To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? (Psa. 13:1)
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Psa. 22:1‑2• 1To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David. My *God, my *God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?
 2My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me: (Psa. 22:1‑2)
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Psa. 44:23‑24• 23Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? (Psa. 44:23‑24)
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Psa. 77:9• 9Hath *God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:9)
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Isa. 40:27• 27Why sayest thou, Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and my right is passed away from my God? (Isa. 40:27)
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Isa. 49:15• 15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Even these forget, but I will not forget thee. (Isa. 49:15)
why go.
Psa. 38:6• 6I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day. (Psa. 38:6)
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Psa. 43:2• 2For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? (Psa. 43:2)
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Psa. 88:9• 9Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee. (Psa. 88:9)
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Job 30:26‑31• 26For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
 27My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.
 28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
 29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
 30My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
 31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers. (Job 30:26‑31)
because.
Psa. 55:3• 3Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me. (Psa. 55:3)
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Eccl. 4:1• 1And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, and they had no comforter. (Eccl. 4:1)
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Lam. 5:1‑16• 1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
 4Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
 5Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
 6We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
 7Our fathers have sinned, and they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
 8Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
 9We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
 10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
 11They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
 12Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
 13The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
 14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
 15The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
 16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned! (Lam. 5:1‑16)
• The circumstances may lead him to cry, “Why hast thou forgotten me?” (“Psalms 42” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I will say unto *God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because off the oppression of the enemy?

JND Translation Notes

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Or "amid."