Psalms 44:23
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
In Context
22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Cross References
Psalms 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
Psalms 44:9But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonour, and don’t go out with our armies.
Psalms 74:1God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoulder against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 78:65Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced 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 →