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Psalm 44:26

Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.

24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.
26Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.
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Notice

“Rise up” comes from people bowed to the dust, whose plea for rescue rests on God’s loving kindness while their oppression remains unresolved.

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Where else Scripture says this

4 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 102:13You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.Both passages speak of God arising to help his people, grounding that help in his loving kindness or mercy.
Psalm 68:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.Both ask God to arise, with Psalm 44 seeking help and Psalm 68 seeking the scattering of his enemies.
Psalm 130:7–8Israel, hope in the LORD, for there is loving kindness with the LORD. Abundant redemption is with him.Both link redemption with God’s loving kindness, making his character the ground for hope and prayer.
Psalm 25:22God, redeem Israel out of all his troubles.Both plead with God to redeem his people from distress.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. waiting. injustice and anger.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray this plea for a suffering community

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Encouragement

The psalm ends with a plea still awaiting an answer. In that unresolved distress, God’s loving kindness remains the reason his people ask him to redeem them.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).