KJV King James Version
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
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Psalm 22:2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
WEB World English Bible
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
ASV American Standard Version
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.
Surrounding context — Psalm 22
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?
2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
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Psalm 42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God?Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?Psalm 88:1A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night before thee:Psalm 55:16-17As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.Luke 22:41-46And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,Lamentations 3:44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.1 Thessalonians 3:10Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.Matthew 26:44And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.2 Timothy 1:3I thank God, whom I serve from [my] forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;Luke 6:12And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.Psalm 80:4O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
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