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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Psalms 44:19-21

Thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons By inflicting upon us one breach after another, thou hast at last brought us to this pass; that we are become like a place extremely desolate, such as dragons love, (Isaiah 13:21,) and therefore full of horror and danger; and covered us with the shadow of death With deadly horrors and miseries. If we have forgotten the name of God That is, God himself, or his worship and service; or stretched out our hands to strange gods In the way of prayer or adoration. Shall not God search this out? We appeal to the heart-searching God, concerning the sincerity of this our profession.

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See also Psalms 44:19-21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 44:19. _THOU HAST SORE BROKEN US IN THE PLACE OF DRAGONS_] Thou hast delivered us into the hands of a fierce, cruel, and murderous people. We, as a people, are in a similar state to one...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOUGH THOU HAST SORE BROKEN US IN THE PLACE OF DRAGONS - Or rather, “That thou hast crushed us in the place of dragons.” The connection is continued from the previous verse: “Our heart is not so turn...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PLACE OF DRAGONS] RV 'place of jackals,' a desert, to which condition the country had been reduced. SHADOW OF DEATH] deep darkness and gloom....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    19_Although thou hast broken us in the place of dragons. _In the Hebrew it is, _For thou hast broken us, etc.; _but the causal particle, כי, _ki, _according to the idiom of the Hebrew language, is oft...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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