Psalms 44:6
What meaning of the psalms 44:6 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 44:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me."
What does Psalms 44:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me."
Verse Psalms 44:6. _I WILL NOT TRUST IN MY BOW_] As he is speaking of what God had already done for his forefathers, these words should be read in the _past_ tense: "We have not trusted," c....
FOR I WILL NOT TRUST IN MY BOW - The author of the psalm himself again speaks as expressing his own feelings, and stating the grounds of his confidence and hope. Compare Psalms 44:4. At the same time...
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...
TRUST. confide. Hebrew. _batah_. App-69. BOW... SWORD. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for military science. Compare 2 Kings 19:32....
The recollection of the past gives confidence for the present and the future. God's strength must still avail for the deliverance of His people, and in Him alone do they trust....
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...
_FOR I WILL NOT TRUST IN MY BOW, NEITHER SHALL MY SWORD SAVE ME._ For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But thou hast saved us from our For I will not trust in my bow, neith...
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 44:7]_ כִּ֤י לֹ֣א בְ קַשְׁתִּ֣י אֶבְטָ֑ח וְ֝ חַרְבִּ֗י לֹ֣א תֹושִׁיעֵֽנִי׃...
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...
COURAGE FROM FORMER DELIVERANCES Psalms 44:1 This psalm, like Psalms 60:1, came out of one of the early wars in David's reign, as described in 2 Samuel 8:13. Some refer it to 2 Chronicles 20:1. It b...
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...
_Fall. This seems to be placed too soon, in order to shew the rapidity of the conquest. (Calmet) --- "Thy arrows are sharp, shot into the hearts," &c. (Haydock) --- Some explain in corde, (as the Hebr...
What an unanswerable appeal this is for success in player! If God be our king, will he not help and defend his own subjects? And, if we use the same argument in a gospel sense; if Jesus be our Redeeme...
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...
FOR I WILL NOT TRUST IN MY BOW,.... In any carnal weapon, in any creature help and assistance, or in an arm of flesh, but in the word of the Lord, and in his name; see Psalms 20:7; NEITHER SHALL MY S...
_For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me._ Ver. 6. _For I will not trust in my bow_] To trust in men or means is the ready road to utter ruin. Idas, one of the Argonauts, is br...
_Thou art my king, O God_ And thou, O God, who didst such astonishing things for them, art still the very same almighty Being, whom I honour as my sovereign, my governor, and protector. The whole peop...
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...
1-8 Former experiences of God's power and goodness are strong supports to faith, and powerful pleas in prayer under present calamities. The many victories Israel obtained, were not by their own streng...
But I will trust in thee only, as the next verse implies; and therefore do not frustrate my hope and confidence fixed upon thee....
Psalms 44:6 trust H982 (H8799) bow H7198 sword H2719 save H3467 (H8686) Psalms 20:7, Psalms 33:16-17; Hosea 1:7...
THE PSALMIST EXPRESSES HIS GENERAL CONFIDENCE IN THE FACT THAT GOD WILL IN THE FUTURE FIGHT FOR THEM AND ACT ON THEIR BEHALF AS HE HAS IN THE PAST (PSALMS 44:4). The Psalmist speaks in the singular a...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
Psalms 44:1. _We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old._ Now Israel was restored to Canaan, and the Canaanite and Perizzit...
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...
Hosea 1:7; Psalms 20:7; Psalms 33:16; Psalms 33:17...