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Verse Psalms 44:8. _IN GOD WE BOAST_] We have told the heathen how
great and powerful our God is. If thou do not deliver us by thy mighty
power, they will not believe our report, but consider that we...
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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! ...
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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...
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BOAST. have boasted.
SELAH. Connecting the wondrous past with the distressing present,
introducing the reason which called forth the Psalm itself, and
marking the important break determining the Stru...
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The recollection of the past gives confidence for the present and the
future. God's strength must still avail for the deliverance of His
people, and in Him alone do they trust....
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Of God have we made our boast all day long,
And unto thy name will we give thanks for ever.
God has been the object of their praises in the past, and to Him they
are resolved to give thanks (Psalms...
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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...
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_IN GOD WE BOAST ALL THE DAY LONG, AND PRAISE THY NAME FOR EVER.
SELAH._
In God we boast - He is the object in whom our praises terminate. The
Hebrew х_ HAALAL_ (H1984)] generally means to praise or...
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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...
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SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4.
11, 12. Some are slain, and others sold into captivity....
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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...
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_[Psalms 44:9]_ בֵּֽ֭ אלֹהִים הִלַּלְ֣נוּ
כָל ־הַ...
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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...
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COURAGE FROM FORMER DELIVERANCES
Psalms 44:1
This psalm, like Psalms 60:1, came out of one of the early wars in
David's reign, as described in 2 Samuel 8:13. Some refer it to...
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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...
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God. Symmachus Greek: Thee. (Theophylactus) --- Elohim is used in both
places, (Haydock) with a singular verb, as being spoken of the Deity.
(St. Irenæus iii. 6.) (Bossuet) (Du Hamel) --- "O Elohim, t...
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What an unanswerable appeal this is for success in player! If God be
our king, will he not help and defend his own subjects? And, if we use
the same argument in a gospel sense; if Jesus be our Redeeme...
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8._In God we will boast _(136) _all the day _This is the conclusion of
the first part of the psalm. To express the meaning in a few words,
they acknowledge, that in all ages the goodness of God had be...
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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...
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IN GOD WE BOAST ALL THE DAY LONG,.... Or, as the Targum, "in the word
of the Lord", in Christ, who is God over all, and who of God is made
to his church and people wisdom, righteousness, sanctificatio...
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In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
Ver. 8. _In God we boast all the day long_] The Spaniards are said to
be great boasters in the very lowest ebb of fortune. A god...
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_Thou art my king, O God_ And thou, O God, who didst such astonishing
things for them, art still the very same almighty Being, whom I honour
as my sovereign, my governor, and protector. The whole peop...
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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...
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In God we boast all the day long, making His almighty power the basis
of their confident praise, AND PRAISE THY NAME, His entire essence as
revealed to men, FOREVER. SELAH. There follows a description...
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1-8 Former experiences of God's power and goodness are strong
supports to faith, and powerful pleas in prayer under present
calamities. The many victories Israel obtained, were not by their own
stren...
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In God we boast, as in a most sure rock, and our only refuge....
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Psalms 44:8 God H430 boast H1984 (H8765) day H3117 praise H3034
(H8686) name H8034 forever H5769 Selah...
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THE PSALMIST EXPRESSES HIS GENERAL CONFIDENCE IN THE FACT THAT GOD
WILL IN THE FUTURE FIGHT FOR THEM AND ACT ON THEIR BEHALF AS HE HAS IN
THE PAST (PSALMS 44:4).
The Psalmist speaks in the singular as...
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Psalms 44:1. _We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have
told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old._
Now Israel was restored to Canaan, and the Canaanite and Perizzit...
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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...
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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...
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_Through Thee will we push down our enemies; through Thy name will we
tread them under that rise up against us._
GOD’S GIFT OF VICTORY
1. The believer may promise to himself whatsoever God hath promi...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 1:29; Isaiah 45:25; Jeremiah 9:24; Psalms 34:2;...