Psalms 44:18
What meaning of the psalms 44:18 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 44:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Our heart is not turned back, neither have our stepsa declined from thy way;"
What does Psalms 44:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Our heart is not turned back, neither have our stepsa declined from thy way;"
OUR HEART IS NOT TURNED BACK - That is, We have not turned away from thy service; we have not apostatized from thee; we have not fallen into idolatry. This must mean that such was not at that time the...
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...
STEPS. goings. Plural in many codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate; but some codices, with nine early printed editions, read singular....
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....
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...
_OUR HEART IS NOT TURNED BACK, NEITHER HAVE OUR STEPS DECLINED FROM THY WAY;_ Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy way Apostasy begins at the OUR HEART IS NOT TURNED...
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 44:19]_ לֹא ־נָסֹ֣וג אָחֹ֣ור לִבֵּ֑נוּ וַ תֵּ֥ט אֲשֻׁרֵ֗ינוּ מִנִּ֥י אָרְחֶֽךָ׃...
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...
_They. Hebrew, Septuagint of Aldus and Complutensian, and the Greek Fathers, have "I will;" yet this is contrary to the Vatican and Alexandrian Septuagint, (Berthier) and seems less accurate. (Houbiga...
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...
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...
OUR HEART IS NOT TURNED BACK,.... To its original hardness, blindness, and bondage, to its former sin and folly, to cherish, gratify, and fulfil its lusts and desires; not from God, from love to him,...
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; Ver. 18. _Our heart is not turned back_] _Metaphora a stadio,_ saith Vatablus. As those that run a race stand not at a stay...
_All this is come upon us_ All the evils before mentioned, and certainly we have deserved them all; _yet have we not forgotten thee_ Although we cannot excuse ourselves from many other sins, for which...
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...
STEPS: Or, goings...
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...
IS NOT TURNED BACK, to wit, from thee, or thy worship and service, unto idols, as it follows, PSALMS 44:20. NEITHER HAVE OUR STEPS DECLINED FROM THY WAY: because it is easy and ordinary falsely to pre...
Psalms 44:18 heart H3820 turned H5472 (H8738) back H268 steps H838 departed H5186 (H8799) way H734 heart - Psalms 78:57, Psalms 125:5; 1 Kings 15:5; Job 34:27; Jeremiah 11:10;
WHAT IS MORE THE PSALMIST CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY IT IS, FOR IN HIS VIEW THEY HAVE BEEN FAITHFUL TO HIS COVENANT AND HAVE WALKED IN HIS WAY (PSALMS 44:17). Psalms 44:17 ‘All this is come upon us, yet...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Kings 15:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; Jeremiah 11:10; Job 23:11; Job 23:12; Job 34:27; Luke 17:32; Psalms 119:157;...
Turned — From thy worship to idols....