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23 Wake up!
    Why do you sleep, Lord?[a]
Arise!
    Don’t reject us forever.
24 Why do you hide your face,
    and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust.
    Our body clings to the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 44:23 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

23 Awake,(A) Lord! Why do you sleep?(B)
    Rouse yourself!(C) Do not reject us forever.(D)
24 Why do you hide your face(E)
    and forget(F) our misery and oppression?(G)

25 We are brought down to the dust;(H)
    our bodies cling to the ground.

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