Psalms 44:23
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.
Webster's Revision
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
World English Bible
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Definitions for Psalms 44:23
Clarke's Psalms 44:23 Bible Commentary
A wake, why steepest thou, O Lord? - That is, Why dost thou appear as one asleep, who is regardless of the safety of his friends. This is a freedom of speech which can only be allowed to inspired men; and in their mouths it is always to be figuratively understood.
Barnes's Psalms 44:23 Bible Commentary
Awake, why sleepest thou? - This is a solemn and earnest appeal to God to interpose in their behalf, as if he were "asleep," or were regardless of their sufferings. Compare Psalm 3:7, note; Psalm 7:6, note; Psalm 35:23, note.
Arise, cast us not off for ever - Do not forsake us always. Compare Psalm 44:9. He had seemed to have cast them off; to have forgotten them; to have forsaken them utterly, and the psalmist, in the name of the people, calls on him not entirely to abandon them.
