诗篇 44:23

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

主啊！求你醒來，為甚麼還睡著呢？求你起來，不要永遠棄絕我們。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
主 啊 ， 求 你 睡 醒 ， 为 何 尽 睡 呢 ？ 求 你 兴 起 ， 不 要 永 远 丢 弃 我 们 ！

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ All these things have happened to us, but we have not forgotten you or failed to keep our agreement with you. ¹⁸ Our hearts haven't turned away from you, and we haven't stopped following you. ¹⁹ But you crushed us in this place where wild dogs live, and you covered us with deep darkness. ²⁰ If we had forgotten our God or lifted our hands in prayer to foreign gods, ²¹ God would have known, because he knows what is in our hearts. ²² But for you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed. ²³ Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping? Get up! Don't reject us forever. ²⁴ Why do you hide from us? Have you forgotten our pain and troubles? ²⁵ We have been pushed down into the dirt; we are flat on the ground. ²⁶ Get up and help us. Because of your love, save us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Awake: Psalms 7:6, Psalms 12:5, Psalms 35:23, Psalms 59:4, Psalms 59:5, Psalms 78:65, Isaiah 51:9, Mark 4:38

cast: Psalms 44:9, Psalms 74:1, Psalms 88:14

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:27 - must be awaked Esther 7:4 - to be destroyed Job 8:6 - he would Psalms 3:7 - Arise Psalms 9:19 - Arise Psalms 17:13 - Arise Psalms 42:9 - Why hast Psalms 74:3 - Lift Psalms 74:11 - pluck it out Psalms 80:2 - stir up Psalms 83:1 - Keep Jeremiah 14:9 - cannot Daniel 9:19 - defer Matthew 8:25 - and awoke Luke 8:23 - he fell

Cross-References

Genesis 43:3
But Judah said to Jacob, "The governor of that country strongly warned us, ‘If you don't bring your brother back with you, you will not be allowed to see me.'

Genesis 43:5
But if you refuse to send Benjamin, we will not go. The governor of that country warned us that we would not see him if we didn't bring Benjamin with us."

Genesis 44:15
Joseph said to them, "What have you done? Didn't you know that a man like me can learn things by signs and dreams?"

Genesis 44:20
And we answered you, ‘We have an old father. And we have a younger brother, who was born when our father was old. This youngest son's brother is dead, so he is the only one of his mother's children left alive, and our father loves him very much.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?.... Not that sleep properly falls upon God: the Keeper of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps; his eyes are always upon his people; he never withdraws them from them, and he watches over them night and day: but sometimes he seems and is thought to be asleep; as when wicked men flourish and triumph over the righteous, and go on in sin with impunity; when their judgment seems to linger, and their damnation to slumber, though it does not; and when the saints are under sore afflictions, and the Lord seems to disregard them, and does not appear for their deliverance; and when things are as when the disciples were in a storm, and Christ was asleep, to whom they said, "carest thou not that we perish?" and the Lord may be said to awake, and it is what is here prayed for, when he stirs up himself and takes vengeance on his enemies, as he will before long on antichrist and his followers; and when he takes in hand the cause and judgment of his people, and pleads it thoroughly, and delivers them out of the hands of all their oppressors, and gives them the dominion and kingdom under the whole heaven; see Isaiah 2:9;

arise; to revenge the blood of his people, and to have mercy on his Zion;

cast [us] not off for ever; as he might seem to do, by suffering their enemies to triumph over them; but in reality he does not; much less with loathing and abhorrence, as the word r used signifies, since his church is his Hephzibah, in whom he delights, Isaiah 62:4; and still less for ever, since his love to them is from everlasting to everlasting, and they shall be for ever with him; Isaiah 62:4- :.

r אל תזנח "ne abjicias cum fastidio", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Psalms 3:7, note; Psalms 7:6, note; Psalms 35:23, note.

Arise, cast us not off for ever - Do not forsake us always. Compare Psalms 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 44:23. Awake, why sleepest 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.