Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
Arise, O Lord, in thy anger, lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.
O God, why dost thou cast us off for ever? Why does thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Bestir thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care if we perish?”
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the dragon?
O Lord, why dost thou cast me off? Why dost thou hide thy face from me?
“Will the Lord spurn for ever, and never again be favorable?
Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us, and hast not gone out with our armies.
“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”