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Verse Psalms 44:2. _THOU DIDST DROVE OUT THE HEATHEN_] The Canaanites
were as a bad tree planted in a good soil, and bringing forth bad
fruit with great luxuriance. God plucked up this bad tree from t...
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HOW THOU DIDST DRIVE OUT THE HEATHEN WITH THY HAND - The word rendered
“heathen” means simply nations without necessarily conveying the
idea of paganism, as that word is now understood. It means the
n...
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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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HEATHEN. nations: i.e. the Canaanites.
THEM: thy People Israel.
PEOPLE. peoples: i.e. the Canaanites.
CAST THEM OUT. spread them about (as. vine, Isaiah 5); "them"
referring to Israel in both claus...
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A retrospect. Not their own valour but God's help and favour gave
Israel possession of the land of Canaan....
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With thine own hand didst thou dispossess nations, and plant them in,
Didst afflict peoples, and cause them to spread abroad.
_Thou with thy hand_are the first words of the verse in the Heb.,
emphasi...
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HOW THOU DIDST AFFLICT, &C.— _How thou didst enfeeble the nations,
and spread them;_—our fathers, Psalms 44:1. That is, madest them
shoot forth their roots and branches, which they were enabled to do...
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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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_HOW THOU DIDST DRIVE OUT THE HEATHEN WITH THY HAND, AND PLANTEDST
THEM; HOW THOU DIDST AFFLICT THE PEOPLE, AND CAST THEM OUT._
(How) thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand -- literally,
'Tho...
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44:2 peoples, (a-18) _ Leummim_ , as Psalms 2:1 ; and so ver. 14....
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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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HEATHEN] EV 'nations.' PEOPLE] RV 'peoples,' the inhabitants of
Canaan. So in Psalms 44:11; Psalms 44:14....
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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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THOU... WITH THY HAND. — Literally, _Thou, Thy hand,_ which may be,
as in the Authorised Version, taken as accusative of instrument, or as
a repeated subject.
AND CAST THEM OUT. — This entirely misses...
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_[Psalms 44:3]_ אַתָּ֤ה ׀ יָדְךָ֡ גֹּויִ֣ם
הֹ֭ורַשְׁתָּ וַ...
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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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[How] thou didst drive out the (b) heathen with thy hand, and
plantedst (c) them; [how] thou didst afflict the (d)
people, and (e) cast them out.
(b) That is, the Canaanites.
(c) That is, our fathe...
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Uttered. Hebrew rachash, "boileth," as one unable to contain himself.
(Berthier) --- Speak, or "dedicate," dico, (Haydock) though here it
only means to speak. (Calmet) --- He addresses the object of h...
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It is one of the best and strongest of all arguments, when pleading
for the renewals of divine love, to put the Lord in remembrance of
past mercies. It is as if we should say. Shall we despond now, wh...
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2._Thou hast expelled the heathen with thy hand. _This is an
illustration of the preceding verse: for the inspired writer had not
yet expressly referred to that work of God, the fame of which had been...
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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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[HOW] THOU DIDST DRIVE OUT THE HEATHEN WITH THY HAND,.... Of power;
that is, the Canaanites, as the Targum; the seven nations which
inhabited the land of Canaan before the children of Israel came into...
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Psalms 44:2 [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and
plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them
out.
Ver. 2. _How thou didst drive out the heathen_] _i.e._ Th...
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_How thou didst drive out the heathen_, &c. The seven nations of the
Canaanites out of Canaan, and settled in their stead thy people
Israel, whom thou didst transplant thither from Egypt. _Didst affli...
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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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how Thou didst drive out the heathen with Thy hand, for it was not
their own weapons and strength which gave them the victory, as the
many specific instances recorded clearly show, but the almighty po...
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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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THE HEATHEN; the Canaanites. PLANTEDST THEM, to wit, our fathers,
easily understood both from the matter, and from PSALMS 44:1, where
they are expressed; the pronoun being referred unto the remoter
an...
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A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR HIS PEOPLE IN THE PAST (PSALMS
44:1).
The Psalmist first calls to mind how it was God Who gave His people
victory when they initially took possession of the lan...
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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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_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 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 5:7; Deuteronomy 7:1; Exodus 15:17; Exodus
15:19;