Psalms 44:11
What meaning of the psalms 44:11 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 44:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen."
What does Psalms 44:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen."
Verse Psalms 44:11. _AND HAST SCATTERED US AMONG THE HEATHEN._] This most evidently alludes to the captivity. From the successful wars of the kings of Assyria and Chaldea against the kings of Israel a...
THOU HAST GIVEN US LIKE SHEEP APPOINTED FOR MEAT - Margin, as in Hebrew, “as sheep of meat.” That is, as sheep are killed for food, so thou hast allowed us to be put to death. AND HAST SCATTERED US A...
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! (Psalms 44:2...
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...
SHEEP APPOINTED FOR MEAT. Hebrew sheep of devouring. Genitive of Relation (App-17). Compare Romans 8:36. SCATTERED US. Israel had already been removed. Sennacherib says he had taken away 200,150 (App...
But the present circumstances of the nation contradict these expressions of faith based upon past experience. Israel is abandoned to be the scorn and prey of its foes. Comp. the transition in Psalms 8...
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...
_THOU HAST GIVEN US LIKE SHEEP APPOINTED FOR MEAT; AND HAST SCATTERED US AMONG THE HEATHEN._ Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat - to be devoured as a prey....
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...
LIKE SHEEP. — The image of the sheep appointed for the slaughter; and unable to resist, recalls Isaiah 53:6, but does not necessarily connect the Psalm with the exile period, since it was a figure lik...
_[Psalms 44:12]_ תִּ֭תְּנֵנוּ כְּ צֹ֣אן מַאֲכָ֑ל וּ֝ בַ † גֹּויִ֗ם זֵרִיתָֽנוּ׃...
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...
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...
Thou hast given us (k) like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. (k) Knowing God to be author of this calamity, they murmur not, but seek remedy at his hands who wound...
_Clothing. Hebrew, "in gold of Ophir." (Haydock) --- The Church is spotless, Ephesians v. 26. The attendants of this glorious queen, are the nations converted, or Christian virgins. They are not the m...
Here is a melancholy state described: and what added to the affliction, the church beheld the Lord's hand in the appointment. Though the Lord's afflictions are always, sooner or later, sanctified affl...
To the same purpose is that other comparison, (verse 11) in which they say that _they were given as sheep for food _(141) By this the prophet intimates, that being already vanquished previous to the b...
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...
THOU HAST GIVEN US LIKE SHEEP [APPOINTED] FOR MEAT,.... To be butchered, and then eaten as sheep are; and therefore are called "the flock of slaughter", Zechariah 11:4; as the church was, not only und...
Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. Ver. 11. _Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat_] _Aliqui occisi, dispersi alii, et venundati g...
_Thou hast given us like sheep_, &c. Some of us they killed in the pursuit, without any mercy, like sheep appointed for the shambles. _And hast scattered us among the heathen_ Those of us who were not...
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 n...
SHEEP APPOINTED FOR MEAT: _ Heb._ as sheep of meat...
9-16 The believer must have times of temptation, affliction, and discouragement; the church must have seasons of persecution. At such times the people of God will be ready to fear that he has cast the...
Those of us who were not slain are carried into captivity, and dispersed in several places....
Psalms 44:11 given H5414 (H8799) sheep H6629 food H3978 scattered H2219 (H8765) nations H1471 given - Jeremiah 12:3; Romans 8:36 like sheep appointed for meat - Heb. as sheep of meat, Psalms 14:4 sc...
IN VIEW OF THEIR TRUST IN GOD THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY THEREFORE THEY HAVE FACED DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES SO THAT SOME OF HIS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TAKEN CAPTIVE AND ARE NOW SLAVES IN THE HAN...
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...
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...
2 Kings 17:6; Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 4:27; Ezekiel 34:12; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 11:12; Jeremiah 12:3; Jeremiah 32:37; Luke 21:24;...
Scattered — Those who were not slain are carried into captivity, and dispersed in several places....