Parallel Verses

Amplified


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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Wake up, Lord! Why are You sleeping?
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.

Context Readings

Israel's Complaint

22
But for Your sake we are killed all the day long;
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
23 
Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awaken, do not reject us forever.
24
Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?


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

O God, why have You rejected us forever?
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?”

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