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Selected Verse: Psalms 44:23 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 44:23 |
King James |
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| This style of addressing God, as indifferent, is frequent (Psa 3:7; Psa 9:19; Psa 13:1, &c.). However low their condition, God is appealed to, on the ground, and for the honor, of His mercy. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 Psa 3:7, note; Psa 7:6, note; Psa 35:23, note.
Arise, cast us not off for ever - Do not forsake us always. Compare Psa 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. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
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.
7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.