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Verse Psalms 44:19. _THOU HAST SORE BROKEN US IN THE PLACE OF
DRAGONS_] Thou hast delivered us into the hands of a fierce, cruel,
and murderous people. We, as a people, are in a similar state to one...
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THOUGH THOU HAST SORE BROKEN US IN THE PLACE OF DRAGONS - Or rather,
“That thou hast crushed us in the place of dragons.” The
connection is continued from the previous verse: “Our heart is not
so turn...
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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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PLACE OF DRAGONS. place of jackals. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_
(of Adjunct), App-6, for. desert place....
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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....
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_Though_&c. Comp. the vigorous paraphrase of P.B.V.; _No, not when
thou hast smitten us_&c. But it is better to render
That thou shouldest have crushed us into a haunt of jackals.
The Psalmist's arg...
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THOUGH THOU HAST SORE BROKEN US IN THE PLACE OF DRAGONS— _Though
thou hast crushed us down into the place of serpents; i.e._ under the
earth, expressed afterwards by _the shadow of death._ It is expla...
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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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_THOUGH THOU HAST SORE BROKEN US IN THE PLACE OF DRAGONS, AND COVERED
US WITH THE SHADOW OF DEATH._
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons - i:e.,
jackals, which frequent the wildern...
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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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PLACE OF DRAGONS] RV 'place of jackals,' a desert, to which condition
the country had been reduced. SHADOW OF DEATH] deep darkness and
gloom....
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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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IN THE PLACE OF DRAGONS. — This expression evidently means _a wild
desert place,_ from comparison with Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 10:22;
Jeremiah 49:33. So Aquila has “an uninhabitable place.” The
render...
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_[Psalms 44:20]_ כִּ֣י דִ֭כִּיתָנוּ בִּ
מְקֹ֣ום תַּנִּ֑ים...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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19_Although thou hast broken us in the place of dragons. _In the
Hebrew it is, _For thou hast broken us, etc.; _but the causal
particle, כי, _ki, _according to the idiom of the Hebrew language,
is oft...
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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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THOUGH THOU HAST SORE BROKEN US IN THE PLACE OF DRAGONS,.... Where
men, comparable to dragons or their poison and cruelty, dwell;
particularly in Rome, and the Roman jurisdiction, both Pagan and
Papal...
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Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered
us with the shadow of death.
Ver. 19. _Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons_]
_i.e._ In deserts haunted by drag...
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though Thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, where jackals
lived, out in the wastes of the desert, where this misfortune had come
upon Israel, AND COVERED US WITH THE SHADOW OF DEATH. It i...
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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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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Psalms 44:19 broken H1794 (H8765) place H4725 jackals H8577 covered
H3680 (H8762) death H6757
Though -...
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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...
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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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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....
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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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Ezekiel 29:3; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 34:14; Isaiah 35:7;...
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Broken us — By inflicting upon us one breach after another, thou
hast at last brought us to this pass. The place — A place extremely
desolate, such as dragons love, Isaiah 13:21, and therefore full of...