Psalms 44:23
Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
In Context
22Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.
24Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?
Cross References
Psalms 12:5Because of violence done to the poor, because of the crying of the needy, Now, will I arise! O may Yahweh say,—I will place [him] in safety—let him puff at him!
Psalms 44:9But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;
Psalms 74:1Wherefore, O God, hast thou cast off utterly? Shall thine anger smoke against the flock of thine own pasturing?
Psalms 78:65Then awoke, as one that had slept, Adonay, As a warrior exulting with wine!
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake put on strength, O arm of Yahweh, Awake, As in days of old, The generations of bygone ages: Art not thou that which—Hewed down Rahab, Piercing the Crocodile?
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 →