Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 44:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
24. hidest thou thy face ] In anger or indifference, instead of shewing the light of Thy countenance in gracious help to Thy people ( Psa 44:3; Psa 80:3).
our affliction and our oppression ] Cp. Deu 26:7; Exo 3:7; Exo 3:9; 2Ki 13:4; 2Ki 14:26. The latter word occurs elsewhere in the Psalter only in Psa 42:9, Psa 43:2.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Wherefore hidest thou thy face? – See the notes at Psa 13:1. Why dost thou turn away from us, and refuse to aid us, and leave us to these unpitied sufferings?
And forgettest our affliction and our oppression – Our trials, and the wrongs that are committed against us. These are earnest appeals. They are the pleadings of the oppressed and the wronged. The language is such as man would use in addressing his fellow-men; and, when applied to God, it must be understood as such language. As used in the Psalms, it denotes earnestness, but not irreverence; it is solemn petition, not dictation; it is affectionate pleading, not complaint. It indicates depth of suffering and distress, and is the strongest language which could be employed to denote entire helplessness and dependence. At the same time, it is language which implies that the cause for which they suffered was the cause of God, and that they might properly call on him to interfere in behalf of his own friends.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face] Show us the cause why thou withdrawest from us the testimony of thy approbation.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Hidest thou thy face, i.e. dost not regard our miseries, nor affordest us any pity or help.
Forgettest our affliction and our oppression, when we have not forgotten thee. This seems not well to become thy faithfulness and goodness.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Wherefore hidest thou thy face?…. See Ps 10:1;
[and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression. Not that the Lord does really forget either the persons of his people, which he cannot, since they are engraven on the palms of his hands, and a book of remembrance is written for them: nor the afflictions of his people; he knows their souls in adversity; he chooses them in the furnace of affliction; he makes all afflictions work together for good, and delivers out of them. But because deliverance is not immediately wrought, and they sometimes continue long under their afflictions and oppressions, they seem to be forgotten by him, as during the ten persecutions and the long reign of antichrist.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Psa 44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Ver. 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face? ] God sometimes concealeth his love, as Joseph did, out of increasement of love; he retireth, but faith fetcheth him out, as the woman of Canaan did, Mar 7:24-25 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Wherefore: Psa 10:1, Psa 10:11, Psa 13:1, Psa 43:1-4, Deu 32:20, Job 13:24
forgettest: Psa 74:19, Psa 74:23, Exo 2:23, Exo 2:24, Isa 40:27, Isa 40:28, Rev 6:9, Rev 6:10
Reciprocal: Psa 27:9 – Hide Psa 42:9 – Why hast Psa 69:17 – hide Psa 88:14 – hidest Psa 142:6 – for I am Isa 45:15 – a God Lam 5:20 – dost Amo 7:2 – for Mar 4:38 – and they
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Psa 44:24-25. Wherefore hidest thou thy face? Dost not regard our miseries, nor afford us any pity or help? and forgettest our affliction Actest as if thou didst forget, or overlook it, when we have not forgotten thee? Does this become thy faithfulness and goodness? For our soul is bowed down to the dust Under prevailing grief and fear. We lie prostrate at our enemies feet. Our belly cleaveth unto the earth We are not only thrown down to the earth, but we lie there. We cannot lift up ourselves, neither revive our own drooping spirits, nor recover ourselves out of our low and sad condition. And we lie exposed to be trodden on by every insulting foe.