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John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 44:15

44:15 My {m} confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,(m) I dare not lift up my head for shame. 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

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Psalms 44:1-26

The Gospel of Providence Psa 44:1 So, we are not inventing a modern providence. The idea of providence personal, domestic, and imperial is not a new idea; we have the advantage of immemorial time. You are fond of antiquity; you go wild over it in some directions. Only point out something that is hoary and dateless, and into what ecstasy people are flung! I do not ask you to believe in mythological antiquity, but in historical time. The Hindu imagination was independent of arithmetic; in the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 44:15-16

What the church, or an individual of the church here complains of, is among the painful exercises of all true followers of Christ. When our God is reproached, and when our confidence in him is derided; or when the enmity takes advantage of the exercises of the faithful, and crieth out, Where is now thy God - these are very sad moments, and put bitterness into the cup of sorrows. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 44:15

Neighbours. The Jews, as well as the Gentiles, shall embrace the faith. (Calmet) --- Virginity became honourable only after the coming of Christ. (St. Chrysostom) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 44:9-16

9-16 The believer must have times of temptation, affliction, and discouragement; the church must have seasons of persecution. At such times the people of God will be ready to fear that he has cast them off, and that his name and truth will be dishonoured. But they should look above the instruments of their trouble, to God, well knowing that their worst enemies have no power against them, but what is permitted from above. read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 44:1-26

A Prayer in Times of National Distress. To the chief. musician for the sons of Korah, another hymn composed by a member of this family, Maschil, a didactic poem evidently written at a time when the nation was in great peril, the period of David's wars having been suggested when he was overthrowing the Ammonites and the Edomites took advantage of his absence to make a raid on Southern Canaan, 2 Samuel 10. The psalm finds its application in the life of all Christians, being particularly... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 44:1-26

Psalms 44:0To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil1          We have heard with our ears,O God, our fathers have told us,What work thou didst in their days,In the times of old.2     How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and, plantedst them,How thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.3     For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,Neither did their own arm save them:But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance,Because... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 44:9-26

a Plea for Present Help Psalms 44:9-26 In Psalms 44:11 God’s people are compared to sheep appointed for meat, which are sold by the shepherd for naught, so worthless are they. Before their savage foes sheep are defenseless and unresisting. Their bitter lot is aggravated by their fear lest the shepherd has forgotten them. The reference in Psalms 44:19 to jackals suggests the further picture of a harried and panting flock. It is hardly to be wondered at that God’s tender mercies seemed... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 44:1-26

The final meaning of this psalm is discovered in its last four verses. It is a prayer for deliverance from defeat. Its strength of appeal lies in its recognition of the government of God. He is the Author of good and evil. Of course, evil is used here in the sense of disaster and calamity. The psalmist sings of the God of good first (verses Psa 44:1-8 ). There is a double recognition of this. History attests it. The testimony of the fathers affirms it. They had originally come into possession... read more

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