Text -- Psalms 44:23-26 (NET)

44:23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever! 44:24 Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated? 44:25 For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground. 44:26 Rise up and help us! Rescue us because of your loyal love!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 44:23

¹ sn Wake up! See Ps 35:23.

NET Notes: Psa 44:24

¹ tn Heb “Why do you hide your face?” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).

² tn Or “forget.”

³ tn Heb “our oppression and our affliction.”

NET Notes: Psa 44:25

¹ tn Heb “for our being/life sinks down to the dirt, our belly clings to the earth.” The suffixed form of נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “being, life”) is often equivalent to a pronoun in poetic texts.

NET Notes: Psa 44:26

¹ tn Or “redeem us.” See Pss 25:22; 26:11; 69:18; 119:134.