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Verse Psalms 44:11. _AND HAST SCATTERED US AMONG THE HEATHEN._] This
most evidently alludes to the captivity. From the successful wars of
the kings of Assyria and Chaldea against the kings of Israel...
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THOU HAST GIVEN US LIKE SHEEP APPOINTED FOR MEAT - Margin, as in
Hebrew, “as sheep of meat.” That is, as sheep are killed for food,
so thou hast allowed us to be put to death.
AND HAST SCATTERED US AM...
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Psalms 44
The Increased Cry for Deliverance
_ 1. My King, O God! Command deliverances (Psalms 44:1)_
2. Trouble upon trouble and confusion (Psalms 44:9)
3. Awake! Arise for our help! ...
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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...
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SHEEP APPOINTED FOR MEAT. Hebrew sheep of devouring. Genitive of
Relation (App-17). Compare Romans 8:36.
SCATTERED US. Israel had already been removed. Sennacherib says he had
taken away 200,150 (App...
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But the present circumstances of the nation contradict these
expressions of faith based upon past experience. Israel is abandoned
to be the scorn and prey of its foes. Comp. the transition in Psalms
8...
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Some of God's people are butchered like sheep (cp. Psalms 44:22);
others are sold as slaves. It is evidently not a deportation of the
nation that is meant, but the sale of prisoners of war for slaves....
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PSALMS 44
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Israel Suffers for God.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 44:1-8, The Psalmist, Encouraging himself by
Jehovah's Past Favour in Giving Israel their Land, Emboldens himself
to E...
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_THOU HAST GIVEN US LIKE SHEEP APPOINTED FOR MEAT; AND HAST SCATTERED
US AMONG THE HEATHEN._
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat - to be devoured as a
prey....
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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 a...
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PSALMS 42:72
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are from the Bible.
Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end.
The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
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LIKE SHEEP. — The image of the sheep appointed for the slaughter;
and unable to resist, recalls Isaiah 53:6, but does not necessarily
connect the Psalm with the exile period, since it was a figure lik...
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_[Psalms 44:12]_ תִּ֭תְּנֵנוּ כְּ צֹ֣אן
מַאֲכָ֑ל וּ֝...
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Psalms 44:1
CALVIN 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...
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A PLEA FOR PRESENT HELP
Psalms 44:9
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 s...
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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 Au...
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Thou hast given us (k) like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast
scattered us among the heathen.
(k) Knowing God to be author of this calamity, they murmur not, but
seek remedy at his hands who wound...
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_Clothing. Hebrew, "in gold of Ophir." (Haydock) --- The Church is
spotless, Ephesians v. 26. The attendants of this glorious queen, are
the nations converted, or Christian virgins. They are not the m...
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Here is a melancholy state described: and what added to the
affliction, the church beheld the Lord's hand in the appointment.
Though the Lord's afflictions are always, sooner or later, sanctified
affl...
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To the same purpose is that other comparison, (verse 11) in which they
say that _they were given as sheep for food _(141) By this the prophet
intimates, that being already vanquished previous to the b...
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Psalms 44 gives a full and vivid picture of the state of the nation,
as in the conscience of the remnant. They had heard with their ears.
Faith rested in the memorial of all the old mighty deliverance...
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THOU HAST GIVEN US LIKE SHEEP [APPOINTED] FOR MEAT,.... To be
butchered, and then eaten as sheep are; and therefore are called "the
flock of slaughter", Zechariah 11:4; as the church was, not only und...
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Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered
us among the heathen.
Ver. 11. _Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat_] _Aliqui
occisi, dispersi alii, et venundati g...
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_Thou hast given us like sheep_, &c. Some of us they killed in the
pursuit, without any mercy, like sheep appointed for the shambles.
_And hast scattered us among the heathen_ Those of us who were not...
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SHEEP APPOINTED FOR MEAT:
_ Heb._ as sheep of meat...
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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 the...
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Those of us who were not slain are carried into captivity, and
dispersed in several places....
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Psalms 44:11 given H5414 (H8799) sheep H6629 food H3978 scattered
H2219 (H8765) nations H1471
given -...
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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 HAN...
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CONTENTS: Complaint of the Lord's apparent forgetfulness and entreaty
for His help.
CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: The tokens of God's displeasure are more grievous to those
who have been lo...
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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
dro...
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_We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what
work Thou didst._
ASPECTS OF NATIONAL PIETY
There is such a thing as national piety. I mean the aggregation of
genuine godly though...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 44:1. This is a hymn for times when
God’s people as a whole have suffered some great calamity at the
hands of their enemies. When the worshiping congregation sings this,
the...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 44:9 In light of this past (vv. Psalms 44:1),
the current situation is difficult to understand. God has apparently
REJECTED his people (v....
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah,
Maschil.” See introduction to Psalms 42.
We have no means of determining who was the author of the psalm. Nor
are we able...
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EXPOSITION
THE date and occasion of this psalm are greatly disputed. Most
critics, from Calvin to Hitzig, refer it to the times of the
Maccabees. Others suggest the fourth or fifth century B.C. One
(T...
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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 a...
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2 Kings 17:6; Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 4:27; Ezekiel 34:12;...
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Scattered — Those who were not slain are carried into captivity, and
dispersed in several places....