Psalm 88:14
Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Cross-reference
Psalm 88:3 sets the context: a soul full of troubles and near death, leading to this cry of rejection.
Psalm 13:1 asks the same question: 'How long will you hide your face from me?' — identical language.
Psalm 43:2 asks 'why have you rejected me?' — the same lament as Psalm 88:14's 'why do you cast my soul away?'
Psalm 69:17 pleads 'Do not hide your face from your servant' — the same fear of being hidden from God.
Psalm 77:7-9 echoes the same desperate questions: will God reject forever, hide his favor, forget mercy?
Psalm 10:1 asks why God stands far off and hides himself in trouble — same sense of abandonment.
Psalm 44:9 laments that God has rejected and humbled his people — the same rejection felt here.
Psalm 44:23 cries 'Do not reject us forever' — matching the plea against rejection in this verse.
Psalm 89:46 echoes the same cry about God hiding his face, reinforcing the theme of divine abandonment in lament.
Psalm 102:2 pleads for God not to hide his face in distress, mirroring the psalmist's plea here.
Job 13:24 asks why God hides his face and considers Job an enemy — identical complaint.
Matthew 27:46 records Jesus' cry of forsakenness, mirroring the same anguish of divine abandonment.
Matthew 26:38 shows Jesus in deep sorrow, echoing the psalmist's anguish and prefiguring Christ's suffering.
Mark 14:33 describes Jesus' distress, paralleling the psalmist's lament and typifying messianic suffering.
Lamentations 3:56 asks God not to close his ear, contrasting with the psalmist's feeling that God hides his face.