Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
Parallel translations
- KJV Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
- BSB Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
- NKJV Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
- NASB Wake Yourself up, why do You sleep, Lord? Awake, do not reject us forever.
- NLT Wake up, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Get up! Do not reject us forever.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 78:65Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
- Ps 7:6Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
- Ps 88:14Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
- Ps 77:7“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
- Ps 35:23Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
- Ps 74:1A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
- Mark 4:38He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”
- Ps 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
- Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
- Ps 44:9But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.
- Ps 59:4–5I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
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