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Psalms 44

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old. ✦ 2With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out. ✦ 3For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them. ✦ 4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob. ✦ 5Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies. ✦ 6For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me. ✦ 7For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame. ✦ 8In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah ✦ 9But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies. ✦ 10You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us. ✦ 11You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations. ✦ 12You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale. ✦ 13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. ✦ 14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples. ✦ 15All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face, ✦ 16at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge. ✦ 17All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant. ✦ 18Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path. ✦ 19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness. ✦ 20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, ✦ 21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart? ✦ 22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. ✦ 23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever. ✦ 24Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression? ✦ 25For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth. ✦ 26Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 74 ·10Ps 78 ·7Ps 89 ·6Ps 60 ·5Ps 42 ·5Ps 44 ·4Deut 28 ·4Josh 10 ·4

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 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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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 44David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 44Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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