Psalms 44:23
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
King James Version
In Context
22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Cross References
Psalms 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Psalms 44:9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
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, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut 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 →