King James Version
Psalms 44:23 in the King James Version says “Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 44 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.”
Psalms 44:23 · KJV
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“why sleepest”
H3462properly, to be slack or languid, i.e., (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“for ever”
H5331properly, a goal, i.e., the bright object at a distance travelled towards; hence (figuratively), splendor, or (subjectively) truthfulness, or (objecti
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