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But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.
Psalms 44:7 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
  • BSB For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
  • NKJV But You have saved us from our enemies, And have put to shame those who hated us.
  • NASB But You have saved us from our adversaries, And You have put to shame those who hate us.
  • NLT You are the one who gives us victory over our enemies; you disgrace those who hate us.

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Quick answer

It is God who has saved His people from their adversaries and shamed their enemies. It matters because every victory is credited to God's saving hand.

Overview

The psalmist affirms past deliverances as God's work, contrasting the shame of enemies with the salvation of God's people. This confession sets the stage for the painful question of why deliverance now seems absent. Ultimately God's saving acts find their climax in Christ, who triumphs over every hostile power.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Ps 136:24And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever:
  • Ps 140:7Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
  • Ps 132:18I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will be resplendent.”
  • Josh 23:9–10“For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
  • Josh 1:5No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
  • Ps 144:10You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
  • Josh 10:42Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
  • Ps 40:14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
  • Ps 53:5There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
  • Ps 83:1–18A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
  • 1 Sam 17:47and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh’s, and he will give you into our hand.”
  • 1 Sam 14:6–10Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”
  • Josh 10:8–10Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”
  • Judg 2:18When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
  • Josh 11:6Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
  • 1 Sam 7:8–12The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”
  • Judg 7:4–7Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ the same shall not go.”
  • 2 Sam 7:10I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 44:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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