Parallel Verses
Amplified
Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awaken, do not reject us forever.
New American Standard Bible
Awake,
King James Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Holman Bible
Get up! Don’t reject us forever!
International Standard Version
Wake up! Why are you asleep, Lord? Get up! Don't cast us off forever!
A Conservative Version
Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever.
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.
Darby Translation
Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Julia Smith Translation
Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever.
King James 2000
Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off forever.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject forever.
Modern King James verseion
Awaken! Why do You sleep, O Jehovah? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Arise, LORD! Why sleepest thou? Awake, and be not absent from us forever.
NET Bible
Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever!
New Heart English Bible
Wake up. Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise. Do not reject us forever.
The Emphasized Bible
Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 44:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Complaint
22
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awaken, do not reject us forever.
Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 7:6
Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
Lift up Yourself against the rage of my enemies;
Rise up for me; You have commanded judgment and vindication.
Psalm 78:65
Then the Lord awakened as from sleep,
Like a [mighty] warrior who awakens from the sleep of wine [fully conscious of his power].
Psalm 35:23
Wake Yourself up, and arise to my right
And to my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psalm 12:5
“Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
Psalm 44:9
But now You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And You do not go out with our armies [to lead us to victory].
Psalm 59:4-5
They run and set themselves against me though there is no guilt in me;
Stir Yourself to meet and help me, and see [what they are doing]!
Psalm 74:1
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
Psalm 77:7
Will the Lord reject forever?
And will He never be favorable again?
Psalm 88:14
O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?
Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength and might, O arm of the Lord;
Awake as in the ancient days, as in the generations of long ago.
Was it not You who cut Rahab (Egypt) in pieces,
Who pierced the dragon [of Egypt]?
Mark 4:38
But Jesus was in the stern, asleep [with His head] on the [sailor’s leather] cushion. And they woke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are about to die?”