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BUT THOU HAST SAVED US FROM OUR ENEMIES - That is, Thou hast done it
in times past. Thou hast interposed in behalf of our nation in periods
of danger and trial, and hast delivered us. This is stated a...
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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. For, as in Psalms 44:3.
HAST SAVED. didst save. Referring to verses: Psalms 44:1.
HAST PUT. didst put. Referring to verses: Psalms 44:1....
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_But_ Or, For. Past experience justifies the confidence of Psalms
44:6.
_them … that hated us_ R.V., them … that hate us. Cp. Psalms
44:10....
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The recollection of the past gives confidence for the present and the
future. God's strength must still avail for the deliverance of His
people, and in Him alone do they trust....
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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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_FOR I WILL NOT TRUST IN MY BOW, NEITHER SHALL MY SWORD SAVE ME._
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But
thou hast saved us from our For I will not trust in my bow, neith...
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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 44:8]_ כִּ֣י הֹ֭ושַׁעְתָּנוּ מִ
צָּרֵ֑ינוּ וּ...
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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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COURAGE FROM FORMER DELIVERANCES
Psalms 44:1
This psalm, like Psalms 60:1, came out of one of the early wars in
David's reign, as described in 2 Samuel 8:13. Some refer it to...
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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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O God, Greek: O Theos. The Septuagint thus mark the vocative case,
(Psalm cxxxviii. 17.; Haydock) and it is clear, that the Messias is
here styled God, (Hebrews i. 8.) though some of the Jews would ev...
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What an unanswerable appeal this is for success in player! If God be
our king, will he not help and defend his own subjects? And, if we use
the same argument in a gospel sense; if Jesus be our Redeeme...
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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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BUT THOU HAST SAVED US FROM OUR ENEMIES,.... Spiritual ones, and not
we ourselves; and therefore will not trust in ourselves, nor in
anything of ours, but in the Lord, and give him the glory of
salvat...
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But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame
that hated us.
Ver. 7. _But thou hast saved us_] Thou hast wrought and fought for us
against those that sought to destroy us. Thou...
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_Thou art my king, O God_ And thou, O God, who didst such astonishing
things for them, art still the very same almighty Being, whom I honour
as my sovereign, my governor, and protector. The whole peop...
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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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But Thou hast saved us from our enemies and hast put them to shame
that hated us, their opposition to Israel brought them nothing but
disgrace, because God was the sole Help of His people....
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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
stren...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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THE PSALMIST EXPRESSES HIS GENERAL CONFIDENCE IN THE FACT THAT GOD
WILL IN THE FUTURE FIGHT FOR THEM AND ACT ON THEIR BEHALF AS HE HAS IN
THE PAST (PSALMS 44:4).
The Psalmist speaks in the singular as...
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Psalms 44:1. _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._
Now Israel was restored to Canaan, and the Canaanite and Perizzit...
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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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_Through Thee will we push down our enemies; through Thy name will we
tread them under that rise up against us._
GOD’S GIFT OF VICTORY
1. The believer may promise to himself whatsoever God hath promi...
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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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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 Samuel 14:6; 1 Samuel 17:47; 1 Samuel 7:8; 2 Samuel 7:10; Joshua 1:5