Psalms 44:23

44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

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Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

What does Psalms 44:23 mean?

Psalms 44:23 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include עוּר (ʻûwr), יָשֵׁן (yâshên), אֲדֹנָי (ʼĂdônây).

Hebrew interlinear

Awake,עוּרʻûwr/oor/H5782to wake (literally or figuratively)

why

sleepestיָשֵׁןyâshên/yaw-shane'/H3462properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate

thou,

Lord?אֲדֹנָיʼĂdônây/ad-o-noy'/H136the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)

arise,קוּץqûwts/koots/H6974to awake (literally or figuratively)

cast

not

offזָנַחzânach/zaw-nakh'/H2186reject, forsake, fail

for

ever.נֶצַחnetsach/neh'-tsakh/H5331properly, a goal, i.e. the bright object at adistance travelled towards; hence (figuratively), splendor, or (subjectively) truthfulness, or (objectively) confidence; but usually (adverbially), continually (i.e. to the most distant point of view)

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Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 44:23.

Psalms 35:23

Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

Psalms 73:20

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Jeremiah 51:39

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:57

And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Job 14:12

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

Psalms 3:5

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

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 77:7

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

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What does Psalms 44:23 say?

Psalms 44:23 (King James Version) reads: "Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever."

Is Psalms 44:23 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 44:23 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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