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Psalms Chapter 44 verse 23 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 44:23

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast `us' not off for ever.
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BBE Psalms 44:23

Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.
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DARBY Psalms 44:23

Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.
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KJV Psalms 44:23

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
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WBT Psalms 44:23

Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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WEB Psalms 44:23

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.
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YLT Psalms 44:23

Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 23-26. - The appeal to God is now made, after the case has been fully represented. God has always hitherto maintained the cause of his people, and given them victory over their enemies, unless they had fallen away from him (vers. 1-8). Now he has acted otherwise - he has allowed their enemies to triumph (vers. 9-16). And they have given him no reason for his desertion of them (vers. 17-22). Surely, if they call upon him, and plead their cause before him, he will relent, and come to their aid. The appeal, therefore, is made briefly, but in the most moving terms. Verse 23. - Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? The psalmist does not really believe that Jehovah "sleeps." The heathen might so imagine of their gods (1 Kings 18:27), but not an Israelite. An Israelite would be sure that "he that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps" (Psalm 121:4). The writer consciously uses an anthropomorphism, really intending only to call on God to rouse himself from his inaction, and lay it aside, and come to Israel's aid. Arise (see Psalm 7:6; Psalm 9:19; Psalm 10:12, etc.). Cast us not off for ever (comp. ver. 9). Under the existing peril, for God to cast off his people will be to cast them off for ever. They had no strength of their own that could save them.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Why sleepest.--Comp. Psalm 7:6, and see refs.