Salmos 44:1-49:20 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 44:1-8

1-8 Former experiences of God's power and goodness are strong supports to faith, and powerful pleas in prayer under present calamities. The many victories Israel obtained, were not by their own strength or merit, but by God's favour and free grace. The less praise this allows us, the more comfort it affords, that we may see all as coming from the favour of God. He fought for Israel, else they had fought in vain. This is applicable to the planting of the Christian church in the world, which was... 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 44:1-8

Courage from Former Deliverances Psalms 44:1-8 This psalm, like Psalms 60:1-12 , came out of one of the early wars in David’s reign, as described in 2 Samuel 8:13-14 . Some refer it to 2 Chronicles 20:1-37 . It befits the Church when her former prosperous state contrasts sadly with her depressed and suffering condition. It is a great argument in prayer when we can quote to God the mighty things of the past, and ask that He should do the same again. The great revivals and advances of the past... 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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 44:1-3

A Description Of What God Has Done For His People In The Past (Psalms 44:1-3 ). The Psalmist first calls to mind how it was God Who gave His people victory when they initially took possession of the land of Canaan. Psalms 44:1 ‘We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work you did in their days, In the days of old. The people (‘we’) call to God and describe what they have learned from their fathers in the past, of how God had acted for them in days of old. Each year... 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 44:1

What work thou didst in their days: they allege their former experience, as encouragements to their faith, and motives to God to continue to be gracious to them. 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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Psalms 44:1

The Story of God's Mighty Acts July 17th, 1859 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "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." Psalms 44:1 . Perhaps there are no stories that stick by us so long as those which we hear in our childhood, those tales which are told us by our fathers, and in our nurseries. It is a sad reflection that too many of these stories are idle and vain, so that our minds in early infancy are tinctured... read more