Psalms 44:23 · KJV
“Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast {us} not off for ever.”
— Psalms 44:23
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, {and} forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 44 — Context
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast {us} not off for ever.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, {and} forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Cross References
Psalms 78:65
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, {and} like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalms 7:6
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me {to} the judgment {that} thou hast commanded.
Psalms 74:1
[Maschil of Asaph.] O God, why hast thou cast {us} off for ever? {why} doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? {Maschil...: or, A Psalm for Asaph to give instruction}
Psalms 88:14
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? {why} hidest thou thy face from me?
Psalms 77:7
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
Psalms 35:23
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, {even} unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psalms 59:4-5
They run and prepare themselves without {my} fault: awake to help me, and behold. {help: Heb. meet}
Mark 4:38
And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?