Psalms · 26 verses
Psalms 44
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The psalm puts God’s people on sale for nothing, then complains that the seller made no profit—a national lament with the bookkeeping left oddly visible.
The victories rememberedvv. 1–8
The sons of Korah begin with inherited memory: their fathers told of God driving out nations, planting Israel, and winning the land without the aid of sword or bow. God is their King, their boast, and the source of every victory; the refrain is confident enough to last all day, and then adds, “Selah,” as though even confidence needs a pause.
The victory goes missingvv. 9–22
Then the old account meets the present one. God no longer goes out with the armies; the people retreat, are plundered, scattered, mocked, and sold for nothing. The complaint has the precision of an invoice: no profit was made. Stranger still, the sufferers insist that they have not forgotten God, betrayed the covenant, turned back, or strayed from the path. They have done none of these things, yet have been crushed in a jackals’ lair and covered in deepest darkness. The accusation is not tidied away.
A summons to the silent Kingvv. 23–26
At last the psalm addresses the silence itself. The God once credited with every victory is told to wake up and arise, asked why He hides His face, and pressed to remember affliction and oppression. The people lie with soul in the dust and bodies clinging to the earth; the final request is for help and redemption on account of loving devotion. No explanation arrives, only the summons.
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Ps 44:1For 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.
Ps 44:2With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
Ps 44:3For 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.
Ps 44:4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
Ps 44:5Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
Ps 44:6For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
Ps 44:7For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
Ps 44:8In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah
Ps 44:9But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
Ps 44:10You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
Ps 44:11You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
Ps 44:12You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
Ps 44:13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
Ps 44:14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Ps 44:15All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
Ps 44:16at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
Ps 44:17All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
Ps 44:18Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
Ps 44:19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
Ps 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Ps 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Ps 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Ps 44:23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Ps 44:24Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
Ps 44:25For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
Ps 44:26Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
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- 22Romans 8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
- 3Deuteronomy 7:7–8The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
- 3Deuteronomy 8:17–18You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
- 5Psalms 108:13With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
- 21Jeremiah 17:10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- 5Psalms 60:12With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
- 5Psalms 118:10–13All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- 22Isaiah 53:7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- 3Joshua 24:12I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.
- 1Psalms 78:3–6that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- 5Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
- 8Psalms 34:2My soul boasts in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.
- 21Jeremiah 23:24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
- 26Psalms 130:7–8O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
- 1Exodus 13:14–15In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- 5Deuteronomy 33:17His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”
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