Verse Psalms 44:22. For thy sake are we killed all the day long] Because of our attachment to thee and to thy religion, we are exposed to continual death; and some of us fail a daily sacrifice to the persecuting spirit of our enemies, and we all carry our lives continually in our hands. In the same state were the primitive Christians; and St. Paul applies these words to their case, Romans 8:36.
YEA, FOR THY SAKE ARE WE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG - That is, we are continually or constantly subjected to these calamities. It is not a single defeat, but it is a continued slaughter. This verse conta...
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...
YEA. Surely. Quoted in Romans 8:36. LORD *. Primitive text read "Jehovah". Altered by the _Sopherim_ to "Adonai". See App-32. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "Jehovah"....
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....
_Yea, for thy sake_ Or, Nay, but for thy sake. Not only have we not been unfaithful to Thee, but we are actually suffering as martyrs for Thy sake. Such a protest was no doubt particularly true in the...
YEA, FOR THY SAKE ARE WE KILLED— i.e. As professing thy religion, and not willing to have any inter-community with the false gods of the heathen; for it is well known, that the Jews were exposed to a...
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...
_YEA, FOR THY SAKE ARE WE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG; WE ARE COUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER._ Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. So far are...
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...
FOR THY SAKE. — For St. Paul’s quotation of this verse (Romans 8:36), see Note, _N. Test. Commentary. _...
_[Psalms 44:23]_ כִּֽי ־עָ֭לֶיךָ הֹרַ֣גְנוּ כָל ־הַ...
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...
Yea, for thy sake (r) are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. (r) The faithful take comfort in this, that the wicked punish them not for their sins, but for because...
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...
22_Surely for thy sake we are killed all the day. _Here the faithful urge another reason why God should show mercy to them, namely, that they are subjected to sufferings not on account of crimes commi...
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...
YEA, FOR THY SAKE ARE WE KILLED ALL THE DAY LONG,.... These words are cited by the Apostle Paul in Romans 8:36; and are applied to his times, showing the then close attachment of the saints to Christ,...
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Ver. 22. _Yea, for thy sake are we killed, &c._] _q.d._ Thou knowest that for thy sake, and not for vain g...
_Yea_, or _but, for thy sake we are killed all the day_ We do not suffer for our apostacy, but because we will not apostatize from thee. We are persecuted and put to death because we are thy people, a...
Yea, for Thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. That is the experience of the believers of all times on account of their adherence to God's Word, to the co...
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...
YEA; or, _but_. We do not suffer for our apostacy, but because we will not apostatize from thee. FOR THY SAKE; because we are thy people, and continue constantly and resolutely in the profession and p...
Psalms 44:22 killed H2026 (H8795) day H3117 accounted H2803 (H8738) sheep H6629 slaughter H2878 Yea -...
THE PSALMIST NOW ADMITS THAT POSSIBLY THEY HAVE BEEN AT FAULT (PSALMS 44:20). Psalms 44:20 ‘If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god, Will not God searc...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:30; 1 Corinthians 15:31; 1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Kings 19:10;...
Yea — Because we are constant in thy worship, which they abhor....