Psalms 44:23
Rouse yourself, why do you sleep Lord? Awake, cast us not off forever.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
In Context
22But in your cause it is we are killed all the day, and counted as sheep for the slaughter.
24Why do you hide your face, forgetting our stress and our misery?
Cross References
Psalms 12:5“The poor are despoiled, and the needy are sighing; so now I will act,” the Lord declares “And place them in the safety they long for.”
Psalms 44:9Yet you have spurned and disgraced us, in not going forth with our armies,
Psalms 74:1Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 78:65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior flushed with wine;
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 →