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(Heb.: 44:23-27) The church is not conscious of any apostasy, for on the contrary it is suffering for the sake of its fidelity. Such is the meaning intended by כִּי, Psa 44:23 (cf. Psa 37:20). The emphasis lies on עָלֶיךָ, which is used exactly as in Psa 69:8. Paul, in Rom 8:36, transfers this utterance to the sufferings of the New Testament church borne in witnessing for the truth, or I should rather say he considers it as a divine utterance corresponding as it were prophetically to the sufferings of the New Testament church, and by anticipation, coined concerning it and for its use, inasmuch as he cites it with the words καθὼς γέγραπται. The suppliant cries עוּרָה and הָקִיצָה are Davidic, and found in his earlier Ps; Psa 7:7; Psa 35:23; Psa 59:5., cf. Psa 78:65. God is said to sleep when He does not interpose in whatever is taking place in the outward world here below; for the very nature of sleep is a turning in into one's own self from all relationship to the outer world, and a resting of the powers which act outwardly. The writer of our Psalm is fond of couplets of synonyms like עָנְיֵנוּ וְלַֽחֲצֵנוּ in Psa 44:25; cf. Psa 44:4, יְמִינְךָ וּזְרֹועֲךָ. Psa 119:25 is an echo of Psa 44:26. The suppliant cry קוּמָה (in this instance in connection with the עזרתה which follows, it is to be accented on the ultima) is Davidic, Psa 3:8; Psa 7:7; but originally it is Mosaic. Concerning the ah of עֶזְרָתָה, here as also in Psa 63:8 of like meaning with לְעֶזְרָתִי, Psa 22:20, and frequently, vid., on Psa 3:3.