Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off 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!
American Standard Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever.
Amplified
Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awaken, do not reject us forever.
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 Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 23 Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever. 24 Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 7:6
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger. Lift up thyself against the rage of my adversaries, and awake for me the justice thou have commanded.
Psalm 78:65
Then LORD awoke as out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
Psalm 35:23
Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice to me, to my cause, my God and my LORD.
Psalm 12:5
Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.
Psalm 44:9
But now thou have cast off, and brought us to dishonor, and go not forth with our armies.
Psalm 59:4-5
They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault. Awake thou to help me, and behold.
Psalm 74:1
O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalm 77:7
Will LORD cast off forever? And will he be favorable no more?
Psalm 88:14
LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?
Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of LORD. Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
Mark 4:38
And he himself was in the stern sleeping on the cushion. And they awake him, and say to him, Teacher, does it not concern thee that we perish?