Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever.
Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.
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, who is regardless of the safety of his friends. This is a freedom of speech which can only be allowed to inspired men; and in their mouths it is always to be figuratively understood.
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 of their sufferings. Compare Psalm 3:7, note; Psalm 7:6, note; Psalm 35:23, note.
Arise, cast us not off for ever - Do not forsake us always. Compare Psalm 44:9. He had seemed to have cast them off; to have forgotten them; to have forsaken them utterly, and the psalmist, in the name of the people, calls on him not entirely to abandon them.