Psalm 44:26 NLT,NIV,ESV

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 44:1-26

Psalms 44:0 Has God forgotten his people?Some national disaster has overtaken Israel and the people ask if God has deserted them. The tone of the psalm is not one of humility, but one of outspoken boldness in questioning God’s purposes. It shows some lack of faith and submission before God (cf. Romans 8:28,Romans 8:31-39). But God may yet be gracious and answer such a prayer.Through the words of the psalmist the people recall how God enabled their ancestors to conquer and inhabit Canaan (1-3).... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 44:26

Arise. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. redeem = deliver. Hebrew. padah, See notes on Exodus 6:6 ; Exodus 13:13 . mercies ' = mercy's, or lovingkindness. To the chief Musician. See App-64 . Written by Hezekiah for his special circumstances; but on account of verses: Psalms 44:1-8 was handed over for general use at the Feast of the Passover. See note below. upon = relating to, or concerning. Shoshannim = Lilies. Put by Figure of speech Metalepsis for "Spring", and "Spring" put for the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 44:1-26

Psalms 44The writer spoke for the nation of Israel in this psalm. He lamented a national disaster, namely, defeat by enemies, and he called on the Lord to deliver. Evidently he could not identify sin in the nation as the cause of this defeat. He attributed it instead to it being "for Your sake" (Psalms 44:22). Israel was apparently suffering because she had remained loyal to God in a world hostile to Him. The basis of the psalmist’s request was God’s faithfulness to the patriarchs and the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 44:23-26

4. A prayer requesting divine intervention 44:23-26The psalmist cried out to God to act for His people. He pictured God as asleep and in need of arousing (cf. Mark 4:38). Yahweh could not be angry because His people had not sinned by turning to another god (Psalms 44:18; Psalms 44:20). Israel had come to the end of her rope and was almost dead. Since Yahweh had pledged to protect His people, the writer concluded with an appeal to His loyal love.Sometimes believers suffer through no apparent... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 44:1-26

This is a prayer for deliverance from national trouble which has not been deserved by any apostasy or idolatry. The strong assertions of national faithfulness are akin to the spirit of the Maccabean age, but the conditions indicated in the Ps. may be found also at an earlier date, such as the time of the invasion by Sennacherib in the reign of Hezekiah. God has helped His people in the days of old (Psalms 44:1-3), and they are still confident in Him (Psalms 44:4-8), yet He has allowed their... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 44:1-26

God's Doings in the Time of Old Psalms 44:1 What God has been to us men we know from history. We know then from history what He will be to us. Now to apply this there are three departments of human life in which this recurrence to the past is of great religious value. I. First there is the family, resting on God's own ordinance, springing out of the most intimate and sacred ties that can unite human beings. Every family has its traditions of the past has its encouragements and its warnings,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 44:1-26

Psalms 44:1-26CALVIN says that the authorship of this psalm is uncertain, but that it is abundantly clear that it was composed by anyone rather than David, and that its plaintive contents suit best the time when the savage tyranny of Antiochus raged. No period corresponds to the situation which makes the background of the psalm so completely as the Maccabean, for only then could it be truly said that national calamities fell because of the nation’s rigid monotheism. Other epochs have been... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 44:1-26

Psalms 44:0 The Increased Cry for Deliverance 1. My King, O God! Command deliverances (Psalms 44:1-8 ) 2. Trouble upon trouble and confusion (Psalms 44:9-21 ) 3. Awake! Arise for our help! (Psalms 44:22-26 ) The third Maschil Psalm. They remember the days of old, what God did for His covenant people in the past, how He gave them the land with an outstretched arm and delivered them from their enemies. They own Him as King and call on Him to command deliverances for Jacob. Then they utter... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 44:26

44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy {t} mercies’ sake.(t) Which is the only sufficient ransom to deliver both body and souls from all kinds of slavery and misery. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 44:1-26

Psalms 38:0 An appeal to God from chastisement because of iniquity (Psalms 38:1-4 ). The mental anguish is described in figures of physical disease, and yet it is not impossible that such disease may have been part of the chastisement (Psalms 38:5-8 ). The desertion of friends and the opposition of enemies also entered into it (Psalms 38:10-17 ). There are verses susceptible of an application to Christ, but others would prevent its application as a whole to him. Psalms 40:0 Messianic (compare... read more