Push down. — The image of the original is lost here, the LXX. have retained it. It is that of a buffalo or other horned animal driving back and goring its enemies. Deuteronomy 33:17 applies it as a special description of the tribe of Joseph. The figure is continued in the next clause; the infuriated animal tramples its victim under foot.
Verse Psalms 44:5. _THROUGH THEE WILL WE PUSH DOWN_] _Through thy_ WORD, במימרא _bemeimra_, "Thy substantial Word." - _Chaldee_. If thou be with us, who can be successfully against us? Literally "We w...
THROUGH THEE - By thy help. “Will we push down our enemies.” The word here rendered “push down” means literally to strike or push with the horns, spoken of horned animals, Exodus 21:28, Exodus 21:31....
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...
ENEMIES. adversaries. THY NAME. See note on Psalms 20:1....
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....
_push down_) Perhaps a reminiscence of Deuteronomy 33:17; but metaphors from horned animals are common. Cp. 1 Kings 22:11. _our enemies_) R.V. our adversaries, and similarly in Psalms 44:7;...
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...
_THROUGH THEE WILL WE PUSH DOWN OUR ENEMIES: THROUGH THY NAME WILL WE TREAD THEM UNDER THAT RISE UP AGAINST US._ Through thee will we push down our enemies. Faith speaks, triumphing over sense. In sp...
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 44:6]_ בְּ֭ךָ צָרֵ֣ינוּ נְנַגֵּ֑חַ בְּ֝ שִׁמְךָ֗...
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...
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...
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...
(h) Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. (h) Because they and their forefathers made both one Church, they apply that to them...
Reign. Devise, execute, and perfect the establishment of thy spiritual kingdom. (Worthington) --- Solomon was no warrior; but he only wanted enemies to be so. The sword of Christ is his word, (Hebrews...
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...
5._Through thee we have pushed, or smitten, with the horn our adversaries. _(135) The prophet here declares in what respect God had manifested himself to be the King of this people. He did so by inves...
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...
THROUGH THEE WILL WE PUSH DOWN OUR ENEMIES,.... The Chaldee paraphrase renders it, "through the Word": the essential Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the church's King and God, and has wroug...
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. Ver. 5. _Through thee will we push down our enemies_] _Cornu petemus,_ a metaphor from h...
_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...
Through Thee will we push down our enemies, as an angry ox charges and overthrows everyone coming into his way; THROUGH THY NAME WILL WE TREAD THEM UNDER THAT RISE UP AGAINST US....
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...
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...
PUSH DOWN, Heb. smite with the horn, i.e. subdue and destroy. The phrase is taken from DEUTERONOMY 33:17, and is borrowed from horned beasts. Compare 1 KINGS 22:11. THROUGH THY NAME, i.e. by the help...
Psalms 44:5 down H5055 (H8762) enemies H6862 name H8034 trample H947 (H8799) up H6965 (H8801) Through t
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
1 Kings 22:11; Daniel 8:4; Deuteronomy 33:17; Isaiah 41:14;...