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Psalms 44:23
Psalms 44:23 is verse 23 of Psalms chapter 44, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
King James Version
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.
The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
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Psalms 44:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
22 Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
23 Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
24 Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
25 For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 7:6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
Psalms 35:23Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
Psalms 59:4For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice.
Psalms 59:5O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah
Psalms 78:65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
Mark 4:38But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, “Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?”
Psalms 44:9But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
Psalms 74:1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
Psalms 88:14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?