Psalms 44:23

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Awake, why sleepest thou? - This is a solemn and earnest appeal to God to interpose in their behalf, as if he were “asleep,” or were regardless o...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XLIV. A National Prayer in Unmerited Distress. The Ps. evidently depicts the situation of Israel under Antiochus Epiphanes [but see OTJC 2, pp. 207...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

23 Arise, O Lord! why sleepest thou? Here the saints desire that God, having pity upon them, would at length send them help and deliverance....
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. A wake, why steepest thou, O Lord? - That is, Why dost thou appear as one asleep...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. Fifth strophe. Psalms 44:23-26 .-Prayer that God would arise for His peopl...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This is a prayer for deliverance from national trouble which has not been deserved by any apostasy or idolatry. The strong assertions of national fai...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Why sleepest thou? ] an expression of startling boldness, yet the prayer of Psalms 44:26 shows that its daring springs not from unbelief but from...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

( 23 ) Why sleepest. — Comp. Psalms 7:6 , and see refs.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 44:1-26 CALVIN says that the authorship of this psalm is uncertain, but that it is abundantly clear that it was composed by anyone rather t...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Plea for Present Help Psalms 44:9-26 In Psalms 44:11 God's people are compared to sheep appointed for meat, which are sold by the shepherd...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The final meaning of this psalm is discovered in its last four verses. It is a prayer for deliverance from defeat. Its strength of appeal lies in its...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

These are the strong cries of faith: not that the Lord sleepeth, or is an inattentive spectator to the exercises of his redeemed: He seeth and knowet...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord ?.... Not that sleep properly falls upon God: the Keeper of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps; his eyes are always...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever. Ver. 23. Awake, why sleepest thou? ] Considering all the premises, stir up th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Israel's Appeal to God. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Awoken Himself To The True Situation He Now Calls On Their Sovereign Lord To Awaken And Rise Up And Help Them ( Psalms 44:23-26 ). Psalms 44:23-2...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.” See introduction to Psalms 42 . We have no means of determi...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 44:1 . Our fathers have told us. All ancient patriarchs instructed their children, and all ancient nations instructed posterity by oral tra...
The Biblical Illustrator

We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what work Thou didst. Aspects of national piety There is such a thing as national...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE date and occasion of this psalm are greatly disputed. Most critics, from Calvin to Hitzig, refer it to the times of the Maccabe...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Prayer in Times of National Distress. To the chief. musician for the sons of Korah, another hymn composed by a member of this family, Maschil, a...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Awake! Why sleepest Thou, O Lord? this being the conclusion reached because of His failure to bring speedy deliverance to His children. Arise, cast...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 51:9 ; Mark 4:38 ; Psalms 12:5 ; Psalms 35:23 ; Psalms 59:4 ; Psalms 59:5 ; Psalms 7:6 ; Psalms 78:65 ; Psalms 44:9 ; Psalms 74:1 ;...

²³ Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 44:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 44:23