Psalms 44:24
\44:23\Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
In Context
25\44:24\Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
Cross References
Exodus 2:23Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.
Job 13:24Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
Psalms 10:11He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
Psalms 35:23Be awake, O Lord, be moved to take up my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psalms 43:1Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.
Psalms 74:23Keep in mind the voice of your haters; the outcry of those who come against you goes up every day.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 44:18-26
Israel's Appeal to God. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the… Read the whole commentary →