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Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don`t reject us forever.
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A Cry, Not a Doctrine
Commentators explain that when the psalmist asks God to "awake," it is not a theological statement that God literally sleeps. Rather, it is a raw, human expression of desperation when God feels distant or inactive during intense suffering. It is an emotional plea for God to intervene and make His presence and power known.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Awake, why sleepest thou? — This is a solemn and earnest appeal to God to intervene on their behalf, as if he were asleep,…
19th Century
Anglican
(23) Why sleepest. — Compare Psalms 7:6, and see references.
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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-…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Previously, the psalmist demonstrated his desire for God; here he proceeds to pray against the affliction of the entire people.
The…
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