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Psalms 44

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. ✦ 2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. ✦ 3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. ✦ 4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. ✦ 5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. ✦ 6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. ✦ 7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. ✦ 8In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. ✦ 9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. ✦ 10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. ✦ 11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. ✦ 12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. ✦ 13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. ✦ 14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. ✦ 15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, ✦ 16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. ✦ 17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. ✦ 18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; ✦ 19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. ✦ 20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; ✦ 21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. ✦ 22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. ✦ 23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. ✦ 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? ✦ 25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. ✦ 26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake. ✦

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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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