“ Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. ”
Thou art my King, O God - literally, “Thou art He, my King, O God;” that is, Thou art the same: the same King, and the same God, who didst interpose in the time of the fathers, and thou art he wh...
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for (g) Jacob. (g) Because you are our king, therefore deliver your people from their misery.
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...
Thou . Thou Thyself. art my King . art He my King. deliverances. Plural of majesty. a great deliverance.
4. Thou, even thou, art my King, O God! In this verse the faithful express still more plainly what I have already alluded to a little before, namely, that the goodness of God was not only ap...
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. Thou art my king - What thou wert to them, be to us. We believe in thee as they did; we have sinned and are in captivity, but we repent and tu...
Thou art my king, O God— Thou——the same, art my king, O God: command victories for Jacob. As he was the same God who was still their king, it was equally in his power now to give them success, wh...
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. Thou art my King, O God - literally, 'Thou art He (that is) my King.' Thou art the One that pre-eminently hast kingly authority and ir...
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...
Thou art my King. — Literally, Thou, He, my king, an idiomatic way of making a strong assertion, Thou, even thou, art my king, O God. (Comp. Isaiah 43:25 .) What God has done in the past may b...
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...
Courage from Former Deliverances Psalms 44:1-8 This psalm, like Psalms 60:1-12 , came out of one of the early wars in David's reign, as described in 2 Samuel 8:13-14 . Some refer it to 2 Chr...
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...
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 Redeem...
Thou art my King, O God ,.... Besides the favours God had done for his people in time past, the church takes notice of her interest in God as her King, who was able to protect and defend her, and to...
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. Ver. 4. Thou art my King, O God ] Heb. Thou art he, my King; Or, Thou art the same, my King, i.e. the same that thou wast to those of old...
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 peo...
Grateful Acknowledgment of Past Mercies; Consecration to God. To the chief musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. ...
My King; Jacob's or Israel's King, in a peculiar manner. The whole people speak like one man, as being united together in one body. Command, i.e. effectually procure by thy commanding word.
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 44:4-8 ). The Psalmist speaks in the sin...
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 . 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 Periz...
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 33:22 ; Mark 1:25 ; Mark 1:26 ; Mark 1:31 ; Mark 1:41 ; Mark 9:25 ; Psalms 42:8 ; Psalms 74:12 ; Psalms 89:1
My king — The whole people speak as one man, being united in one body.