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Psalms 44:23

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

KJV

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

ASV

כִּֽי עָ֭לֶי/ךָ הֹרַ֣גְנוּ כָל הַ/יּ֑וֹם נֶ֝חְשַׁ֗בְנוּ כְּ/צֹ֣אן טִבְחָֽה

Hebrew

Stir up--why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

YLT

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

חָשַׁ֖ב
chshb
verb · 123×
י
y
noun · 3×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 167×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
צֹ֣אן
ts'n
noun · 269×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 51:9 — Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
  • Job 8:6 — If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
  • Ps 3:7 — 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.
  • Ps 7:6 — 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.
  • Ps 7:6 — 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.
  • Ps 9:19 — Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
  • Ps 17:13 — Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
  • Ps 35:23 — Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
  • Ps 35:23 — Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
  • Ps 42:9 — I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 74:1 — O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
  • Ps 77:7 — Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
  • Ps 78:65 — Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
  • Ps 78:65 — Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
  • Ps 80:2 — Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
  • Ps 88:14 — LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?