Psalms 44:23
Vp, why sleepest thou, O Lord? awake, be not farre off for euer.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
In Context
22Surely for thy sake are we slaine continually, and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our miserie and our affliction?
Cross References
Psalms 12:5Now for the oppression of the needy, and for the sighes of the poore, I will vp, sayeth the Lord, and will set at libertie him, whom the wicked hath snared.
Psalms 44:9But now thou art farre off, and puttest vs to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.
Psalms 74:1A Psalme to give instruction, committed to Asaph. O God, why hast thou put vs away for euer? why is thy wrath kindled against the sheepe of thy pasture?
Psalms 78:65But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,
Isaiah 51:9Rise vp, rise vp, and put on strength, O arme of the Lord: rise vp as in the olde time in the generations of the worlde. Art not thou the same, that hath cutte Rahab, and wounded 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 →