Parallel Verses

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.

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.

Context Readings

Israel's Complaint

22 Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. 23 Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not reject us forever.
24 Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

Cross References

Psalm 7:6

Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

Psalm 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.

Psalm 35:23

Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!

Psalm 12:5

"Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."

Psalm 44:9

But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies.

Psalm 59:4-5

for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Awake, come to meet me, and see!

Psalm 74:1

O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

Psalm 77:7

"Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable?

Psalm 88:14

O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me?

Isaiah 51:9

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?

Mark 4:38

But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"

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