Psalms 44:23 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 44:23

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

YLT

Stir up--why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

DBT

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

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

24 verses on the floor

Psalms 35:23
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psalms 78:65
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalms 7:6
Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Psalms 9:19
Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
Psalms 3:7
Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices3

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Some observe that most of the psalms that are entitled Maschil--psalms of instruction, are sorrowful psalms; for afflictions give instructions, and sorrow of spirit opens the ear to them. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest and teachest.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

He that keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps; but, when he does not immediately appear for the deliverance of his people, they are tempted to think he sleeps. The expression is figurative (as Ps. lxxviii. 65 , Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep ); but it was applicable to Christ in the letter ( Matt. viii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This style of addressing God, as indifferent, is frequent (Ps 3:7; However low their condition, God is appealed to, on the ground, and for the honor, of His mercy.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 44:23PSA 35:23 PSA 7:6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 44:23PSA 35:23 ISA 51:9
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
PSA 44:23PSA 77:7 PSA 85:1
PSA 44:23PSA 88:14 JOB 13:24
PSA 44:23PSA 77:7 LAM 3:31-32
PSA 44:23PSA 77:7 PSA 89:46
PSA 44:23PSA 77:7 ROM 11:1-2
PSA 44:23PSA 7:6 PSA 35:23

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