Awake, why sleepest thou? — This is a solemn and earnest appeal to God to intervene on their behalf, as if he were asleep,…

(23) Why sleepest. — Compare Psalms 7:6, and see references.

Arise, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Here the saints desire that God, having pity on them, would finally send them help and deliverance. Altho…

Awake, why do you sleep, O Lord ?
&c.] Not that sleep properly falls upon God: the Keeper of Israel neither slumbers nor sleep…

In afflictions, we must not seek relief by any sinful compliance, but should continually meditate on the truth, purity, and knowledge of our heart-…

1. Previously, the psalmist demonstrated his desire for God; here he proceeds to pray against the affliction of the entire people.

The…