Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?
Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?
Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face - Why is it that I no longer enjoy thy approbation?
Holdest me for thine enemy? - Treatest me as if I were the vilest of sinners?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face - To hide the face, or to turn it away, is expressive of disapprobation. We turn away the face when we are offended with anyone. See the notes at Isaiah 1:15.
And holdest me for thine enemy - Regardest and treatest me as an enemy.