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Psalms 44

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1God, we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us The work that You did in their days, In the days of old. ✦ 2You with Your own hand drove out the nations; Then You planted them; You afflicted the peoples, Then You let them go free. ✦ 3For by their own sword they did not possess the land, And their own arm did not save them, But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence, For You favored them. ✦ 4¶You are my King, God; Command victories for Jacob. ✦ 5Through You we will push back our adversaries; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us. ✦ 6For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me. ✦ 7But You have saved us from our adversaries, And You have put to shame those who hate us. ✦ 8In God we have boasted all day long, And we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah ✦ 9¶Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And do not go out with our armies. ✦ 10You cause us to turn back from the enemy; And those who hate us have taken spoils for themselves. ✦ 11You turn us over to be eaten like sheep, And have scattered us among the nations. ✦ 12You sell Your people cheaply, And have not profited by their sale. ✦ 13You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, Of scoffing and ridicule to those around us. ✦ 14You make us a proverb among the nations, A laughingstock among the peoples. ✦ 15All day long my dishonor is before me And I am covered with my humiliation, ✦ 16Because of the voice of one who taunts and reviles, Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger. ✦ 17¶All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You, And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant. ✦ 18Our heart has not turned back, And our steps have not deviated from Your way, ✦ 19Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals And covered us with deep darkness. ✦ 20¶If we had forgotten the name of our God Or extended our hands to a strange god, ✦ 21Would God not find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. ✦ 22But for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. ✦ 23Wake Yourself up, why do You sleep, Lord? Awake, do not reject us forever. ✦ 24Why do You hide Your face And forget our affliction and oppression? ✦ 25For our souls have sunk down into the dust; Our bodies cling to the earth. ✦ 26Rise up, be our help, And redeem us because of Your mercy. ✦

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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 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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    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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