Psalms 44:23

Contemporary English Version

Wake up! Do something, Lord! Why are you sleeping? Don't desert us forever.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping?Get up! Don’t reject us forever!

Hebrew Names Version
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

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

English Standard Version
Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever!

New Century Version
Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping? Get up! Don't reject us forever.

New English Translation
Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever!

Amplified Bible
Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Awaken, do not reject us forever.

New American Standard Bible
Wake Yourself up, why do You sleep, Lord? Awake, do not reject us forever.

World English Bible
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Vp, why sleepest thou, O Lord? awake, be not farre off for euer.

Legacy Standard Bible
Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?Awake, do not reject us forever.

Berean Standard Bible
Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

Complete Jewish Bible
For your sake we are put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.

Darby Translation
Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord, wake up! Why are you sleeping? Get up! Don't ignore us forever!

George Lamsa Translation
Awake and sleep not, O LORD; remember us and forsake us not.

Good News Translation
Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself Don't reject us forever!

Lexham English Bible
Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject forever.

Literal Translation
Be aroused! Why do You sleep, O God? Awake! Do not cast us off forever.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Vp LORDE, why slepest thou? Awake, and cast vs not of for euer.

American Standard Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever.

Bible in Basic English
Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

King James Version (1611)
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast vs not off for euer.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Stirre vp O Lorde, why slepest thou? awake & be not absent from vs for euer:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Awake, wherefore sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and do not cast us off for ever.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, rise vp, whi slepist thou? rise vp, and putte not awei in to the ende.

Update Bible Version
Awake, why do you sleep, O Lord? Arise, don't cast [us] off forever.

Webster's Bible Translation
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.

New King James Version
Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.

New Living Translation
Wake up, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Get up! Do not reject us forever.

New Life Bible
Awake, O Lord! Why do You sleep? Rise up! Do not turn away from us forever.

New Revised Standard
Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not cast us off forever!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!

Douay-Rheims Bible
(43-23) Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.

Revised Standard Version
Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!

Young's Literal Translation
Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

THE MESSAGE
Get up, God ! Are you going to sleep all day? Wake up! Don't you care what happens to us? Why do you bury your face in the pillow? Why pretend things are just fine with us? And here we are—flat on our faces in the dirt, held down with a boot on our necks. Get up and come to our rescue. If you love us so much, Help us!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not reject us forever.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ All of this has happened to us, though we didn't forget you or break our agreement. ¹⁸ We always kept you in mind and followed your teaching. ¹⁹ But you crushed us, and you covered us with deepest darkness where wild animals live. ²⁰ We did not forget you or lift our hands in prayer to foreign gods. ²¹ You would have known it because you discover every secret thought. ²² We face death all day for you. We are like sheep on their way to be slaughtered. ²³ Wake up! Do something, Lord! Why are you sleeping? Don't desert us forever. ²⁴ Why do you keep looking away? Don't forget our sufferings and all of our troubles. ²⁵ We are flat on the ground, holding on to the dust. ²⁶ Do something! Help us! Show how kind you are and come to our rescue.

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
Judah replied, "The governor strictly warned us that we would not be allowed to see him unless we brought our youngest brother with us. If you let us take Benjamin along, we will go and buy grain. But we won't go without him!"

Genesis 44:15
who asked them, "What have you done? Didn't you know I could find out?"

Genesis 44:20
So we told you, "Our father is a very old man. In fact, he was already old when Benjamin was born. Benjamin's brother is dead. Now Benjamin is the only one of the two brothers who is still 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.