Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 44:17
Yet — Although we cannot excuse ourselves from many other sins, yet through thy grace we have kept ourselves from apostacy and idolatry, notwithstanding all examples and provocations.
Yet — Although we cannot excuse ourselves from many other sins, yet through thy grace we have kept ourselves from apostacy and idolatry, notwithstanding all examples and provocations.
Verse Psalms 44:17. _YET HAVE WE NOT FORGOTTEN THEE_] These are bold words; but they must be understood in a qualified sense. We have not _apostatized_ from thee, we have not _fallen into idolatry_. A...
ALL THIS IS COME UPON US - All these calamities. The connecting thought here is, that although all these things had come upon them, yet they could not be traced to their own infidelity or unfaithfulne...
Psalms 44 The Increased Cry for Deliverance _ 1. My King, O God! Command deliverances (Psalms 44:1)_ 2. Trouble upon trouble and confusion (Psalms 44:9) 3. Awake! Arise for our help! ...
XLIV. A NATIONAL PRAYER IN UNMERITED DISTRESS. The Ps. evidently depicts the situation of Israel under Antiochus Epiphanes [but see OTJC 2, pp. 207f., 437- 440. A. S. P.] So much was plain long ago to...
The calamity is unmerited. No unfaithfulness to God's covenant has called for punishment. Nay it is for His sake that His people are suffering....
_All this_&c. Cp. Judges 6:13. _yet have we not_&c. Although we have not forgotten Thee, as our fathers did so often. Cp. Psalms 78:7; Psalms 78:11;...
PSALMS 44 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Israel Suffers for God. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 44:1-8, The Psalmist, Encouraging himself by Jehovah's Past Favour in Giving Israel their Land, Emboldens himself to E...
_ALL THIS IS COME UPON US; YET HAVE WE NOT FORGOTTEN THEE, NEITHER HAVE WE DEALT FALSELY IN THY COVENANT._ All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in t...
This is a prayer for deliverance from national trouble which has not been deserved by any apostasy or idolatry. The strong assertions of national faithfulness are akin to the spirit of the Maccabean a...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
_[Psalms 44:18]_ כָּל ־זֹ֣את בָּ֭אַתְנוּ וְ לֹ֣א...
Psalms 44:1 CALVIN says that the authorship of this psalm is uncertain, but that it is abundantly clear that it was composed by anyone rather than David, and that its plaintive contents suit best the...
A PLEA FOR PRESENT HELP Psalms 44:9 In Psalms 44:11 God's people are compared to sheep appointed for meat, which are sold by the shepherd for naught, so worthless are they. Before their savage foes s...
The final meaning of this psalm is discovered in its last four verses. It is a prayer for deliverance from defeat. Its strength of appeal lies in its recognition of the government of God. He is the Au...
All this is come upon us; yet have we not (o) forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. (o) They boast not of their virtues, but declare that they rest on God in the midst of the...
Sons. Protestants, "shall be thy children." (Haydock) --- This was the wish of those present. But it does not appear that the daughter of Pharao had any children, (Calmet) and thus it seems improbable...
The apostle seems to have had this scripture in his view, and referred it to the times in which he lived, when, after pointing out the heavy afflictions the church then endured, he quotes a part of th...
17_All this has come upon us, etc. _As they have already attributed to God all the afflictions which they endured, if they should now say that they were undeservedly afflicted, it would be the same th...
Psalms 44 gives a full and vivid picture of the state of the nation, as in the conscience of the remnant. They had heard with their ears. Faith rested in the memorial of all the old mighty deliverance...
ALL THIS IS COME UPON US,.... Not by chance, but according to the purpose and counsel of God; not for sin, and as a punishment of it, but for Christ's sake and his Gospel; for a profession of faith in...
_All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant._ Ver. 17. _All this is come upon us; yet_] This they allege, viz. their constance as an argue...
_All this is come upon us_ All the evils before mentioned, and certainly we have deserved them all; _yet have we not forgotten thee_ Although we cannot excuse ourselves from many other sins, for which...
All this is come upon us, apparently in punishment; YET HAVE WE NOT FORGOTTEN THEE, NEITHER HAVE WE DEALT FALSELY IN THY COVENANT, to deserve such a fate as a punishment....
A PRAYER IN TIMES OF NATIONAL DISTRESS. To the chief. musician for the sons of Korah, another hymn composed by a member of this family, Maschil, a didactic poem evidently written at a time when the na...
17-26 In afflictions, we must not seek relief by any sinful compliance; but should continually meditate on the truth, purity, and knowledge of our heart-searching God. Hearts sins and secret sins are...
Although we cannot excuse ourselves from many other sins for which thou hast justly punished us, yet this we must say for ourselves, that through thy grace we have kept ourselves from apostacy and ido...
Psalms 44:17 come H935 (H8804) forgotten H7911 (H8804) falsely H8266 (H8765) covenant H1285 All this -...
WHAT IS MORE THE PSALMIST CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY IT IS, FOR IN HIS VIEW THEY HAVE BEEN FAITHFUL TO HIS COVENANT AND HAVE WALKED IN HIS WAY (PSALMS 44:17). Psalms 44:17 ‘All this is come upon us, yet...
CONTENTS: Complaint of the Lord's apparent forgetfulness and entreaty for His help. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The tokens of God's displeasure are more grievous to those who have been lo...
Psalms 44:1. _Our fathers have told us._ All ancient patriarchs instructed their children, and all ancient nations instructed posterity by oral traditions, as in this psalm, by reciting how Joshua dro...
_We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what work Thou didst._ ASPECTS OF NATIONAL PIETY There is such a thing as national piety. I mean the aggregation of genuine godly though...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 44:1. This is a hymn for times when God’s people as a whole have suffered some great calamity at the hands of their enemies. When the worshiping congregation sings this, the...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 44:17 The pain of the situation is especially sharp because the community claims not to have FORGOTTEN God or to have been FALSE TO his COVENANT (v....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.” See introduction to Psalms 42. We have no means of determining who was the author of the psalm. Nor are we able...
EXPOSITION THE date and occasion of this psalm are greatly disputed. Most critics, from Calvin to Hitzig, refer it to the times of the Maccabees. Others suggest the fourth or fifth century B.C. One (T...
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in times of old. How you did drive out the heathen with thy hand, and you planted them; and how you did a...
Daniel 9:13; Deuteronomy 6:12; Deuteronomy 8:14; Ezekiel 16:59;...