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Psalm 44:23-25
New English Translation
Psalm 44:23-25
New English Translation
23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Wake up![a] Do not reject us forever.
24 Why do you look the other way,[b]
and ignore[c] the way we are oppressed and mistreated?[d]
25 For we lie in the dirt,
with our bellies pressed to the ground.[e]
Footnotes
- Psalm 44:23 sn Wake up! See Ps 35:23.
- Psalm 44:24 tn Heb “Why do you hide your face?” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).
- Psalm 44:24 tn Or “forget.”
- Psalm 44:24 tn Heb “our oppression and our affliction.”
- Psalm 44:25 tn Heb “for our being/life sinks down to the dirt, our belly clings to the earth.” The suffixed form of נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “being, life”) is often equivalent to a pronoun in poetic texts.
Psalm 44:23-25
King James Version
Psalm 44:23-25
King James Version
23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
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