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John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

Psalms 44:25

For our soul is bowed down to the dust,.... Which may signify great declension in spiritual things, much dejection of mind, and little exercise of grace, Psalms 119:25; or a very low estate in temporals; subjection to their enemies; they setting their feet upon their necks, and obliging them to lick the dust of them: and even it may signify nearness to death itself; see Joshua 10:24;

our belly cleaveth to the earth; as persons that lie prostrate, being conquered and suppliants.

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See also Psalms 44:25 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 44:25. _OUR SOUL IS BOWED DOWN_] Our life is drawing near to the grave. If thou delay to help us, we shall become extinct....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR OUR SOUL IS BOWED DOWN TO THE DUST - That is, We are overborne with calamity, so that we sink to the earth. The expression is one that denotes great affliction. OUR BELLY CLEAVETH UNTO THE EARTH...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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! ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OUR SOUL IS. we ourselves are. Hebrew. _nephesh._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    An urgent appeal for immediate help....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    We lie utterly prostrate, crushed and helpless. Cp. Psalms 119:25....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR OUR SOUL IS BOWED DOWN TO THE DUST: OUR BELLY CLEAVETH UNTO THE EARTH._ For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth - (Psalms 119:25.) Here their plea is their mise...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 44:26]_ כִּ֤י שָׁ֣חָה לֶ † עָפָ֣ר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For our soul is (s) bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. (s) There is no hope of recovery, unless you raise us up with your hand....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    PSALM XLIV. (ERUCTAVIT COR MEUS.) The excellence of Christ's kingdom, and the endowments of his Church....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These are the strong cries of faith: not that the Lord sleepeth, or is an inattentive spectator to the exercises of his redeemed: He seeth and knoweth all. The great Shepherd of Israel neither slumber...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    25_For our soul is humbled to the dust _The people of God again deplore the greatness of their calamities, and in order that God may be the more disposed to help them, they declare to him that they ar...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. Ver. 25. _For our soul, &c._] Soul and belly (or body), both are oppressed, and lie suppliant at God's feet; resolved there...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Wherefore hidest thou thy face?_ Dost not regard our miseries, nor afford us any pity or help? _and forgettest our affliction_ Actest as if thou didst forget, or overlook it, when we have not forgott...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth, their condition being one of the greatest oppression and humility....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OUR SOUL, i.e. either our lives or persons; or rather bodies, as it is explained in the next clause, and as the soul is oft taken by a synecdoche, as NUMBERS 11:6 PSALMS 16:10, PSALMS 106:15, &c. TO T...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 44:25 soul H5315 down H7743 (H8804) dust H6083 body H990 clings H1692 (H8804) ground H776...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    AWOKEN HIMSELF TO THE TRUE SITUATION HE NOW CALLS ON THEIR SOVEREIGN LORD TO AWAKEN AND RISE UP AND HELP THEM (PSALMS 44:23). Psalms 44:23 ‘Awake, why do you sleep, O Lord? Arise, do not cast us of...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 44:23 Remembering God’s history with his people strengthens the community to pray for his aid in the present. The last word is a request for God to REDEEM (see note on 25:22),...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 51:23; Lamentations 4:5; Psalms 119:25; Psalms 66:11; P

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Our soul — Our persons. Our belly — We are not only thrown down to the earth, but we lie there like dead carcases....

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