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Verse Psalms 44:12. _THOU SELLEST THY PEOPLE FOR NOUGHT_] An allusion
to the mode of disposing of slaves by their proprietors or sovereigns.
Instead of seeking profit, thou hast made us a present to o...
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THOU SELLEST THY PEOPLE FOR NOUGHT - Margin, without riches. Without
gain, or advantage; that is, for no price that would be an equivalent.
The people were given up to their enemies, but there was not...
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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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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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_Thou sellest thy people_ Handing them over to their enemies
(Deuteronomy 32:30; Judges 2:14; Isaiah 50:1); and that _for nought_,
as though they were worthless in Thy estimation ...
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THOU SELLEST THY PEOPLE FOR NOUGHT— "Sufferest them to be sold for
slaves at a very inconsiderable price." This expression implies the
low esteem in which they were with the Deity. The next expression...
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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 SELLEST THY PEOPLE FOR NOUGHT, AND DOST NOT INCREASE THY WEALTH
BY THEIR PRICE._
Thou sellest thy people for nought - Thou holdest thy people as of so
little worth, that thou art ready to part...
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44:12 price; (d-16) Or 'hast not increased their price.'...
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FOR NOUGHT, etc.] God does not gain by such transactions. His name and
cause are rather discredited.
13, 14. See the speech of Rabshakeh (2 Kings 18:27)....
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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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FOR NOUGHT. — Literally, _for not riches_ (comp. Jeremiah 15:13);
notice the contrast to Psalms 72:14.
AND DOST NOT INCREASE THY WEALTH BY THEIR PRICE. — This rendering
takes the verb as in Proverbs 2...
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_[Psalms 44:13]_ תִּמְכֹּֽר ־עַמְּךָ֥ בְ לֹא
־הֹ֑ון...
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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 sellest thy people (l) for nought, and dost not increase [thy
wealth] by their price.
(l) As slaves who are sold for a low price, you do not look for him
who offers the most, but take the first...
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_Lord. Hebrew adonaiic, "thy master," and worship him, (Haydock) like
a dutiful wife, 1 Peter iii. 6., and 3 Kings i. 16. --- God is not
found in the Septuagint. The title belongs to Jesus Christ, the...
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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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12_Thou hast sold thy people, and not become rich. _In saying that
they were sold without any gain, it is meant that they were exposed to
sale as slaves that are contemptible, and of no value. In the...
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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 SELLEST THY PEOPLE FOR NOUGHT,.... So God, when he is said to
deliver up his people into the hands of their enemies, is said to sell
them to them; see Judges 2:14; and selling them for nought sug...
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_Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy
wealth] by their price._
Ver. 12. _Thou sellest thy people for nought_] Thirty for a penny the
Jews were sold by the Romans, saith Jose...
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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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Thou sellest Thy people for naught, for a song, as though they were
worthless, insignificant, as if He no longer cared for them, AND DOST
NOT INCREASE THY WEALTH BY THEIR PRICE, He did not go high in...
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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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FOR NOUGHT:
_ Heb._ without riches...
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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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FOR NOUGHT; for a thing of nought. Or, _without money_, and _without
price_, as it is said, ISAIAH 55:1; for a very small, or for no price;
for a pair of shoes, as we read, AMOS 2:6. DOST NOT INCREASE...
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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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Deuteronomy 32:30; Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 52:3; Isaiah 52:4; Jeremiah