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21     won’t God search this out?
    For he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long.
    We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Wake up!
    Why do you sleep, Lord?[a]
Arise!
    Don’t reject us forever.

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Footnotes

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

21 would not God have discovered it,
    since he knows the secrets of the heart?(A)
22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep(B) to be slaughtered.(C)

23 Awake,(D) Lord! Why do you sleep?(E)
    Rouse yourself!(F) Do not reject us forever.(G)

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