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Read Full Chapter (Psalms 44) Psalms 44:23-24 KJV
"Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?"
Psalms Chapter 44, Verse 23-24
Psalms 44:23-24 in Context (Verses 20–26 KJV)
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
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Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
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Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.*