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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• 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. (Psa. 18:2)
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Psa. 28:1• 1<<A Psalm of David.>> Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to 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; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
 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. (Psa. 62:2,6‑7)
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Psa. 78:35• 35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. (Psa. 78:35)
Why hast.
Psa. 13:1• 1<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? (Psa. 13:1)
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Psa. 22:1‑2• 1<<To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.>> My 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. (Psa. 22:1‑2)
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Psa. 44:23‑24• 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? (Psa. 44:23‑24)
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Psa. 77:9• 9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:9)
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Isa. 40:27• 27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over 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? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. (Isa. 49:15)
why go.
Psa. 38:6• 6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. (Psa. 38:6)
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Psa. 43:2• 2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? (Psa. 43:2)
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Psa. 88:9• 9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. (Psa. 88:9)
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Job 30:26‑31• 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. (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 wrath they hate me. (Psa. 55:3)
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Eccl. 4:1• 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. (Eccl. 4:1)
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Lam. 5:1‑16• 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 labor, 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 honored.
 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 music.
 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! (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."