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OUR HEART IS NOT TURNED BACK - That is, We have not turned away from
thy service; we have not apostatized from thee; we have not fallen
into idolatry. This must mean that such was not at that time the...
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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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STEPS. goings. Plural in many codices, with one early printed edition,
Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate; but some codices, with nine
early printed editions, read singular....
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The calamity is unmerited. No unfaithfulness to God's covenant has
called for punishment. Nay it is for His sake that His people are
suffering....
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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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_OUR HEART IS NOT TURNED BACK, NEITHER HAVE OUR STEPS DECLINED FROM
THY WAY;_
Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy
way Apostasy begins at the OUR HEART IS NOT TURNED...
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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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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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_They. Hebrew, Septuagint of Aldus and Complutensian, and the Greek
Fathers, have "I will;" yet this is contrary to the Vatican and
Alexandrian Septuagint, (Berthier) and seems less accurate.
(Houbiga...
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The apostle seems to have had this scripture in his view, and referred
it to the times in which he lived, when, after pointing out the heavy
afflictions the church then endured, he quotes a part of th...
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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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OUR HEART IS NOT TURNED BACK,.... To its original hardness, blindness,
and bondage, to its former sin and folly, to cherish, gratify, and
fulfil its lusts and desires; not from God, from love to him,...
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Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy
way;
Ver. 18. _Our heart is not turned back_] _Metaphora a stadio,_ saith
Vatablus. As those that run a race stand not at a stay...
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_All this is come upon us_ All the evils before mentioned, and
certainly we have deserved them all; _yet have we not forgotten thee_
Although we cannot excuse ourselves from many other sins, for which...
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Our heart is not turned back, away from the will of God, NEITHER HAVE
OUR STEPS DECLINED FROM THY WAY, to follow the path of error and
denial of God,...
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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 na...
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STEPS:
Or, goings...
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17-26 In afflictions, we must not seek relief by any sinful
compliance; but should continually meditate on the truth, purity, and
knowledge of our heart-searching God. Hearts sins and secret sins are...
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IS NOT TURNED BACK, to wit, from thee, or thy worship and service,
unto idols, as it follows, PSALMS 44:20. NEITHER HAVE OUR STEPS
DECLINED FROM THY WAY: because it is easy and ordinary falsely to
pre...
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Psalms 44:18 heart H3820 turned H5472 (H8738) back H268 steps H838
departed H5186 (H8799) way H734
hea
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WHAT IS MORE THE PSALMIST CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY IT IS, FOR IN HIS VIEW
THEY HAVE BEEN FAITHFUL TO HIS COVENANT AND HAVE WALKED IN HIS WAY
(PSALMS 44:17).
Psalms 44:17
‘All this is come upon us, yet...
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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 44:17 The pain of the situation is especially
sharp because the community claims not to have FORGOTTEN God or to
have been FALSE TO his COVENANT (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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1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Kings 15:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; Jeremiah
11:10;...
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Turned — From thy worship to idols....