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Psalms 44:24
24Awake! Why do you sleep, my Lord? Wake up! Do not cast us off forever.
Psalms 44:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
- New International Version (NIV)Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?
Context of Psalms 44:24
22would God not have discovered it? For He knows the secrets of the heart. 23But for Your sake we are slain all day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter. Awake! Why do you sleep, my Lord? Wake up! Do not cast us off forever. 25Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression? 26For our soul sinks down to the dust. Our belly cleaves to the earth.
Read all of Psalms 44Psalms 44:24 word by word
לָֽמָּה־פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר תִּשְׁכַּ֖ח עָנְיֵ֣נוּ וְֽלַחֲצֵֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 44:24
- Psalms 10:1Why, Adonai, are You standing far off? Why hide Yourself in times of trouble?
- Psalms 13:1For the music director, a psalm of David.
- Psalms 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and champion my cause against an ungodly nation. From a deceitful and unjust man, deliver me!
- Deuteronomy 32:20He said, “I will hide My face from them, I want to see their hereafter. For they are an upside down generation, children with no faithfulness in them.
- Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me Your enemy?
- Psalms 74:19Do not deliver Your turtledove’s soul to the wild beast. Do not forget the life of Your afflicted ones forever.
- Exodus 2:23Now it came about over the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. Bnei-Yisrael groaned because of their slavery. They cried out and their cry from slavery went up to God.
- Isaiah 40:27Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from Adonai, and the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?
- Revelation 6:9When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those slaughtered for the sake of the word of God and for the witness they had.
Commentaries on Psalms 44:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face - Show us the cause why thou withdrawest from us the testimony of thy approbation.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face? - See the notes at Psalm 13:1. Why dost thou turn away from us, and refuse to aid us, and leave us to these unpitied sufferings? And forgettest our affliction and our oppression - Our trials, and the wrongs that are committed against us. These are earnest appeals. They are the pleadings of the oppressed and the wronged. The language is such as man would use in addressing his fellow-men; and, when applied to God, it must be…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-26Verses 17-26 In afflictions, we must not seek relief by any sinful compliance; but should continually meditate on the truth, purity, and knowledge of our heart-searching God. Hearts sins and secret sins are known to God, and must be reckoned for. He knows the secret of the heart, therefore judges of the words and actions. While our troubles do not drive us from our duty to God, we should not suffer them to drive us from our comfort in God. Let us take…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23-26In the end, God’s people can turn to the Lord and trust him for rescue. Their petition for God to remedy their situation is as strong as their lament about God’s rejection.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 23-2623-26. This style of addressing God, as indifferent, is frequent (Psa 3:7; 9:19; 13:1, &c.). However low their condition, God is appealed to, on the ground, and for the honor, of His mercy.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 44
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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