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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 44:9-16

In View Of Their Trust In God They Cannot Understand Why Therefore They Have Faced Defeat At The Hands Of Their Enemies So That Some Of His People Have Been Taken Captive And Are Now Slaves In The Hands of Their Enemies, While The Remainder Of The Nation Is Dishonoured By What Has Happened (Psalms 44:9-16 ). Psalms 44:9-10 ‘But now you have cast us off, and brought us to dishonour, And you do not go forth with our hosts. You make us to turn back from the adversary, And those who hate us take... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 44:1-26

XLIV. A National Prayer in Unmerited Distress.— The Ps. evidently depicts the situation of Israel under Antiochus Epiphanes [but see OTJC 2 , pp. 207f., 437– 440.— A. S. P.] So much was plain long ago to the Antiochene Fathers and at a later date to Calvin. Antiochus promulgated a decree enforcing unity of worship in his dominions and especially in Palestine. He also polluted the Temple at Jerusalem by heathen sacrifice. He encountered fierce opposition from the Asidæ ans (= Hasidim), led by... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 44:15

Before me; before the eyes of my mind and body too. They vilify me, not only behind my back, but even before my face. The shame of my face hath covered me, i.e. I am filled with shame of my face on every side, being ashamed to show my face in any place or company. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 44:1-26

INTRODUCTIONSuperscription.—“To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.” See introduction to Psalms 42:0.We have no means of determining who was the author of the psalm. Nor are we able to ascertain with certainty upon what occasion it was composed. The various speculations and conjectures on the subject are not amongst the most satisfactory things with which we are acquainted. Looking at the psalm from the homiletic standpoint, we have: a well-founded assurance (Psalms 44:1-8); a... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 44:1-26

Psalms 44:1-26 Psalms 44:1-26 :We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in times of old. How you did drive out the heathen with thy hand, and you planted them; and how you did afflict the people, and cast them out. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because you had favor unto them. Thou art my King, O God: command... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 44:1-26

Psalms 44:1 . Our fathers have told us. All ancient patriarchs instructed their children, and all ancient nations instructed posterity by oral traditions, as in this psalm, by reciting how Joshua drove out the Canaanites. This was done also in their sacred odes, as many of the psalms testify. Our northern fathers often employed the early part of their long winter-nights in the amusing runes and histories of their ancestors. When a stranger called for hospitality, it was reckoned his duty to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 44:1-26

Psalms 44:1-26We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what work Thou didst. Aspects of national pietyThere is such a thing as national piety. I mean the aggregation of genuine godly thought, sympathy and aspiration, whether found in the breast of paupers or princes. Here we have it represented--I. As acknowledging God’s providential kindness to the nation in the past (Verses 1-8).1. The certain assurance of it. We have heard it as an historical fact--heard it from our own... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 44:15

Psa 44:15 My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, Ver. 15. My confusion is continually before me ] Heb. All the day long, or every day; so as that there is neither hope of better nor place of worse. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 44:15

confusion: Joshua 7:7-1 Samuel :, Ezra 9:6, Jeremiah 3:25 covered: Psalms 69:7, Psalms 71:13, Psalms 89:45, Jeremiah 51:51 Reciprocal: Lamentations 2:15 - wag Daniel 9:7 - unto us read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 44:9-16

9-16. The strain suddenly turns to lamentation and complaint, and the poet spreads the national distress before God. Psalms 44:9-12 clearly portray a state of war, of general defeat, and of the captivity and slavery of multitudes. See introduction, and reference there made. Thou hast cast off All their distress results from this one cause. Goest not forth with our armies In vain did they muster their hosts when God was not with them. They… spoil for themselves That is, at will, to... read more

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