“ For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. ”
For our soul is bowed down to the dust - That is, We are overborne with calamity, so that we sink to the earth. The expression is one that denotes great affliction. Our belly cleaveth unto the...
For our soul is (s) bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. (s) There is no hope of recovery, unless you raise us up with your hand.
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...
our soul is . we ourselves are. Hebrew. nephesh.
25 For our soul is humbled to the dust The people of God again deplore the greatness of their calamities, and in order that God may be the more disposed to help them, they declare to him tha...
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. Our soul is bowed down - Our life is drawing near to the grave. If thou delay to help us, we shall become extinct.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth - ( Psalms 119:25 .) Here their plea is th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For our soul is bowed down to the dust ,.... Which may signify great declension in spiritual things, much dejection of mind, and little exercise of grace, Psalms 119:25 ; or a very low estate in te...
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. Ver. 25. For our soul, &c. ] Soul and belly (or body), both are oppressed, and lie suppliant at God's feet; resolved...
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...
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...
Our soul, i.e. either our lives or persons; or rather bodies, as it is explained in the next clause, and as the soul is oft taken by a synecdoche, as Numbers 11:6 Psalms 16:10 , Psalms 106:15...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Isaiah 51:23 ; Lamentations 4:5 ; Psalms 119:25 ; Psalms 66:11 ; Psalms 66:12
Our soul — Our persons. Our belly — We are not only thrown down to the earth, but we lie there like dead carcases.