Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 44:26
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy (t) mercies' sake.
(t) Which is the only sufficient ransom to deliver both body and souls from all kinds of slavery and misery.
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy (t) mercies' sake.
(t) Which is the only sufficient ransom to deliver both body and souls from all kinds of slavery and misery.
Verse Psalms 44:26. _ARISE FOR OUR HELP_] Show forth thy power in delivering us from the hands of our enemies. _REDEEM US_] Ransom us from our thraldom. _FOR THY MERCIES' SAKE._] למען חסדך _lemaan...
ARISE FOR OUR HELP - Margin, as in Hebrew, “a help for us.” That is, Deliver us from our present calamities and troubles. AND REDEEM US - Save us; deliver us. See Psalms 25:22, note; Psalms 31:5, note...
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...
ARISE. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ REDEEM. deliver. Hebrew. _padah,_ See notes on Exodus 6:6; Exodus 13:13. MERCIES. = mercy's, or lovingkindness. TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. See App-64. Written...
An urgent appeal for immediate help....
_Arise_ R.V., Rise up. Cp. Psalms 3:7; Numbers 10:35. _for thy mercy's sake_ R.V., for thy lovingkindness" sake. Jehovah has revealed Himself to be "a God … plenteous in _lovingkindness_and truth, who...
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...
_ARISE FOR OUR HELP, AND REDEEM US FOR THY MERCIES' SAKE._ ARISE FOR OUR HELP - (Psalms 63:7.) REDEEM US FOR THY MERCIES' SAKE - not for our merits. This shows the profession of faithfulness (Psalms...
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 44:27]_ ק֭וּמָֽה עֶזְרָ֣תָה לָּ֑נוּ וּ֝ פְדֵ֗נוּ...
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...
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...
REFLECTIONS READER, how sweet and blessed is it, in all our exercises; to keep in view the faithfulness of a Covenant-God in Christ. By turning back to the proofs of God's faithfulness to his church,...
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...
ARISE FOR OUR HELP,.... Or, "arise our help" s. God is the help of his people, and he is a present help in time of trouble; and he is the only one; and he can help and does, when none else can; AND R...
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. Ver. 26. _Arise for our help_] Heb. A help for us, a sufficient help, proportionable to our necessities. The Hebrew hath a letter more than or...
_Arise, &c., redeem us for thy mercies' sake_ For though we are conscious of being sincere and constant in thy worship and service, we know our obedience and duties have been attended with so many imp...
Arise for our help and redeem us for Thy mercies' sake, the appeal, not to the justice, but to the mercy of God for the sake of the Redeemer, being the one argument which is bound to make an impressio...
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...
FOR OUR HELP: _ Heb._ a help for us...
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...
We mentioned our sincerity and constancy in thy worship only as an argument to move thee to pity, and not as a ground of our trust and confidence, or as if we merited deliverance by it; but that we ex...
Psalms 44:26 Arise H6965 (H8798) help H5833 redeem H6299 (H8798) mercies H2617 for our help - Heb. a help for us redeem -...
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...
REDEEM (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 14:30). _...
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 44:23 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),...
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...
Psalms 130:7; Psalms 130:8; Psalms 26:11...