Psalms 44:23
Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
In Context
22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
24Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
Cross References
Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
Psalms 44:9But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
Psalms 74:1A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
Psalms 78:65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
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 →