Psalms 44:24

44:24 Why do you look the other way, ¹ 

and ignore ²  the way we are oppressed and mistreated? ³ 

Psalms 119:153

ר (Resh)

119:153 See my pain and rescue me!

For I do not forget your law.

[44:24]  ¹ tn Heb “Why do you hide your face?” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).

[44:24]  ² tn Or “forget.”

[44:24]  ³ tn Heb “our oppression and our affliction.”