Psalms 44
1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. 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 thou hadst a favour unto them.
4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.
Cross-references
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- 1Psa 78:3–6, Exo 13:14–15, Deu 6:20, Jol 1:3, Jdg 6:13, Psa 77:5, Psa 42:1, Num 21:14–16
- 2Exo 15:17, Psa 78:55, Jos 11:23, 2Sa 7:10, Jos 21:43, Psa 135:10–12, Exo 34:11, Psa 80:8–11
- 3Deu 7:7–8, Deu 8:17–18, Jos 24:12, Zec 4:6, 2Co 4:7, Exo 15:16, Deu 4:37–38, Psa 20:6
- 4Psa 42:8, Psa 74:12, Psa 89:18, Mrk 9:25, Psa 149:2, Mrk 1:25–26, Mrk 1:31, Isa 33:22
- 5Psa 108:13, Psa 60:12, Psa 118:10–13, Php 4:13, Deu 33:17, Zec 10:5, Dan 8:4, Isa 41:14–16
- 6Psa 20:7, 1Sa 17:47, Hos 1:7, Psa 33:16–17
- 7Psa 140:7, Psa 136:24, Psa 132:18, Jos 1:5, Jos 23:9–10, Psa 53:5, Psa 83:1–18, Jos 10:42
- 8Psa 34:2, Jer 9:24, 1Co 1:29–31, Rom 2:17, Psa 30:12, Isa 45:25, Psa 115:1–18
- 9Psa 60:10, Psa 74:1, Psa 60:1, Psa 108:11, Psa 43:2, Jer 33:24–26, Psa 89:38–45, Rom 11:1–6
- 10Lev 26:17, Jos 7:8, Jos 7:12, Psa 89:41, Isa 10:6, Deu 28:25, Lev 26:14, Jer 20:8
- 11Deu 4:27, Deu 28:64, Ezk 34:12, Rom 8:36, Isa 11:11–12, Jer 32:37, Psa 60:1, Luk 21:24
- 12Jer 15:13, Deu 32:30, Isa 52:3–4, Jdg 3:8, Jdg 2:14, Isa 50:1, Neh 5:8–12, Rev 18:13
- 13Psa 79:4, Psa 80:6, Jer 24:9, Deu 28:37, Psa 89:51, Jer 48:27, Psa 123:3–4, Psa 89:41
- 14Jer 24:9, 2Ki 19:21, Deu 28:37, Job 17:6, Lam 2:15–17, Job 16:4, 2Ch 7:20, Psa 22:7
- 15Psa 69:7, Psa 71:13, 2Ch 32:21, Jer 51:51, Jos 7:7–9, Ezr 9:6, Psa 89:45, Jer 3:25
- 16Psa 8:2, Psa 74:22–23, Psa 74:10, Psa 74:18, Psa 79:12, Isa 37:23–24, Isa 37:17, Isa 37:3–4
- 17Dan 9:13, Deu 8:14, Deu 6:12, Psa 78:57, Jer 31:32, Jer 2:32, Psa 9:17, Psa 78:7
- 18Psa 119:51, Psa 119:157, Psa 78:57, Zep 1:6, Job 23:11–12, Jer 11:10, Luk 17:32, 1Co 15:58
- 19Psa 23:4, Job 3:5, Jer 14:17, Psa 51:8, Isa 34:13–14, Job 30:29, Psa 74:13–14, Mat 4:16
- 20Psa 81:9, Job 11:13, Deu 6:14, Psa 7:3–5, Job 31:5–40, Psa 68:31, Exo 9:29, Psa 44:17
- 21Jer 17:10, Jer 23:24, Ecc 12:14, Job 34:21–22, Job 31:4, Heb 4:12–13, Psa 139:1–24, 1Co 4:5
- 22Rom 8:36, Isa 53:7, Psa 44:11, Jhn 16:2–3, Jhn 15:21, 1Co 4:9, 1Co 15:30–31, Mat 5:10–12
- 23Psa 78:65, Psa 7:6, Psa 88:14, Psa 35:23, Psa 74:1, Psa 77:7, Psa 12:5, Mrk 4:38
- 24Job 13:24, Deu 32:20, Psa 42:9, Exo 2:23–24, Psa 74:23, Psa 43:1–4, Psa 10:1, Psa 13:1
- 25Psa 119:25, Isa 51:23, Psa 66:11–12, Lam 4:5
- 26Psa 130:7–8, Psa 25:22, Psa 35:2, Psa 26:11
Topics in this chapter
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Afflictions and Adversities, Anthropomorphisms, Armies, Backsliders, Belly, Blessing, Canaan, Captive, Confidence, Countenance, Faith, False Confidence, Forgetting God, God, Heart, Heathen, Idolatry, Martyrdom, Murmuring, Music, Oppression, Persecution, Psalms, Quotations and Allusions, Secret, Sin, Thankfulness, War