Psalms 44:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? ”

• Psalms 44:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wherefore hidest thou thy face? - See the notes at Psalms 13:1 . Why dost thou turn away from us, and refuse to aid us, and leave us to these unpitied sufferings? And forgettest our afflictio...

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• Psalms 44:24 - 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...

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• Psalms 44:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? Wherefore hidest thou thy face - Show us the cause why thou withdrawest from us the testimony of thy approbation.

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• Psalms 44:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• Psalms 44:24 - 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...

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• Psalms 44:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 44:1-26 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 be...

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• Psalms 44:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Plea for Present Help Psalms 44:9-26 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 sa...

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• Psalms 44:24 - 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 A...

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• Psalms 44:24 - 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 slumbe...

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• Psalms 44:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wherefore hidest thou thy face ?.... See Psalms 10:1 ; [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression . Not that the Lord does really forget either the persons of his people, which he cannot,...

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• Psalms 44:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression? Ver. 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face? ] God sometimes concealeth his love, as Joseph did, out of increasement...

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• Psalms 44:24 - 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 forgot...

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• Psalms 44:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Israel's Appeal to God.       17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in t...

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• Psalms 44:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Hidest thou thy face, i.e. dost not regard our miseries, nor affordest us any pity or help. Forgettest our affliction and our oppression, when we have not forgotten thee. This seems not well to b...

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• Psalms 44:24 - 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 44:23-26 ). Psalms 44:23-26 ‘Awake, why do you sleep, O Lord? Arise, do n...

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• Psalms 44:24 - 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 a...

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• Psalms 44:24 - 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...

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• Psalms 44:24 - 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 tho...

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• Psalms 44:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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....

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• Psalms 44:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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 th...

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• Psalms 44:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 32:20 ; Exodus 2:23 ; Exodus 2:24 ; Isaiah 40:27 ; Isaiah 40:28 ; Job 13:24 ; Psalms 10:1 ; Psalms 10:11 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 43:1-4 ; Psalms 74:19 ; Psalms 74:2 ; Revelati...

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