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Verse Psalms 44:22. _FOR THY SAKE ARE WE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG_]
Because of our attachment to thee and to thy religion, we are exposed
to continual death; and some of us fail a daily sacrifice to t...
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YEA, FOR THY SAKE ARE WE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG - That is, we are
continually or constantly subjected to these calamities. It is not a
single defeat, but it is a continued slaughter. This verse conta...
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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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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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_Yea, for thy sake_ Or, Nay, but for thy sake. Not only have we not
been unfaithful to Thee, but we are actually suffering as martyrs for
Thy sake. Such a protest was no doubt particularly true in the...
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YEA, FOR THY SAKE ARE WE KILLED— i.e. As professing thy religion,
and not willing to have any inter-community with the false gods of the
heathen; for it is well known, that the Jews were exposed to a...
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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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_YEA, FOR THY SAKE ARE WE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG; WE ARE COUNTED AS
SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER._
Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as
sheep for the slaughter. So far are...
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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 THY SAKE. — For St. Paul’s quotation of this verse (Romans
8:36), see Note, _N. Test. Commentary.
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_[Psalms 44:23]_ כִּֽי ־עָ֭לֶיךָ הֹרַ֣גְנוּ
כָל ־הַ...
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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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Yea, for thy sake (r) are we killed all the day long; we are counted
as sheep for the slaughter.
(r) The faithful take comfort in this, that the wicked punish them not
for their sins, but for because...
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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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22_Surely for thy sake we are killed all the day. _Here the faithful
urge another reason why God should show mercy to them, namely, that
they are subjected to sufferings not on account of crimes commi...
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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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YEA, FOR THY SAKE ARE WE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG,.... These words are
cited by the Apostle Paul in Romans 8:36; and are applied to his
times, showing the then close attachment of the saints to Christ,...
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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as
sheep for the slaughter.
Ver. 22. _Yea, for thy sake are we killed, &c._] _q.d._ Thou knowest
that for thy sake, and not for vain g...
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_Yea_, or _but, for thy sake we are killed all the day_ We do not
suffer for our apostacy, but because we will not apostatize from thee.
We are persecuted and put to death because we are thy people, a...
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Yea, for Thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as
sheep for the slaughter. That is the experience of the believers of
all times on account of their adherence to God's Word, to the
co...
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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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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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YEA; or, _but_. We do not suffer for our apostacy, but because we will
not apostatize from thee. FOR THY SAKE; because we are thy people, and
continue constantly and resolutely in the profession and p...
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Psalms 44:22 killed H2026 (H8795) day H3117 accounted H2803 (H8738)
sheep H6629 slaughter H2878
Yea -...
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THE PSALMIST NOW ADMITS THAT POSSIBLY THEY HAVE BEEN AT FAULT (PSALMS
44:20).
Psalms 44:20
‘If we have forgotten the name of our God,
Or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
Will not God searc...
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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 15:30; 1 Corinthians 15:31; 1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Kings
19:10;...
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Yea — Because we are constant in thy worship, which they abhor....