Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us 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!
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.
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 your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 23 Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off forever. 24 Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 7:6
Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.
Psalm 78:65
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouts by reason of wine.
Psalm 35:23
Stir up yourself, and awake to my defense, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psalm 12:5
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.
Psalm 44:9
But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.
Psalm 59:4-5
They run and prepare themselves apart from my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
Psalm 74:1
[A maschil of Asaph.] O God, why have you cast us off forever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalm 77:7
Will the Lord cast off forever? and will he be favorable no more?
Psalm 88:14
LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?
Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not him who has cut Rahab, and wounded the sea monster?
Mark 4:38
And he was in the rear of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awoke him, and said unto him, Teacher, care you not that we perish?