44:23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Wake up! 1 Do not reject us forever!
44:24 Why do you look the other way, 2
and ignore 3 the way we are oppressed and mistreated? 4
[44:23] 1 sn Wake up! See Ps 35:23.
[44:24] 2 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).
[44:24] 3 tn Or “forget.”
[44:24] 4 tn Heb “our oppression and our affliction.”
