Psalms 44:23
Stir up — why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
In Context
22Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
24Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
Cross References
Psalms 12:5Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety [him who] doth breathe for it.
Psalms 44:9In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.
Psalms 74:1An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.
Psalms 78:65And the Lord waketh as a sleeper, As a mighty one crying aloud from wine.
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah, Awake, as [in] days of old, generations of the ages, Art not Thou it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a 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 →