Psalms 44:23
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast [us] not off for ever.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
In Context
22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Cross References
Psalms 12:5Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; I will set him in the safety he panteth for.
Psalms 44:9But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
Psalms 74:1O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalms 78:65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?
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 →