enemies. adversaries.
Thy name. See note on Psalms 20:1.
Through thee - By thy help. “Will we push down our enemies.” The word here rendered “push down” means literally to strike or push with the horns,...
(h) Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. (h) Because they and their forefa...
XLIV. A National Prayer in Unmerited Distress. The Ps. evidently depicts the situation of Israel under Antiochus Epiphanes [but see OTJC 2, pp. 207...
5. Through thee we have pushed, or smitten, with the horn our adversaries. (135) The prophet here declares in what respect God had manifest...
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. Through thee will we push down - Throu...
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. Through thee will we push down...
This is a prayer for deliverance from national trouble which has not been deserved by any apostasy or idolatry. The strong assertions of national fai...
Push down. — The image of the original is lost here, the LXX. have retained it. It is that of a buffalo or other horned animal driving back and gor...
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 t...
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 descri...
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...
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...
Through thee will we push down our enemies ,.... The Chaldee paraphrase renders it, "through the Word": the essential Word of God, the Lord Jesus Ch...
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. Ver. 5. Through thee will we push d...
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 so...
Grateful Acknowledgment of Past Mercies; Consecration to God. To the chief...
Push down, Heb. smite with the horn, i.e. subdue and destroy. The phrase is taken from Deuteronomy 33:17 , and is borrowed from horned beasts. C...
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 (...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.” See introduction to Psalms 42 . We have no means of determi...
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 w...
Psalms 44:1 . Our fathers have told us. All ancient patriarchs instructed their children, and all ancient nations instructed posterity by oral tra...
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...
Through Thee will we push down our enemies; through Thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. God’s gift of victory 1. The bel...
EXPOSITION THE date and occasion of this psalm are greatly disputed. Most critics, from Calvin to Hitzig, refer it to the times of the Maccabe...
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...
Through Thee will we push down our enemies, as an angry ox charges and overthrows everyone coming into his way; through Thy name will we tread them...
1 Kings 22:11 ; Daniel 8:4 ; Deuteronomy 33:17 ; Isaiah 41:14-16 ; Philippians 4:13 ; Psalms 108:13 ; Psalms 118:10-13 ; Psalms 18:39-42 ; P...
5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.