Psalms 44:25

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 there to live and die together.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 44:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 denote...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 ha...
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. 207...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

our soul is . we ourselves are. Hebrew. nephesh.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 m...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 de...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 th...
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 fai...
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 t...
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...
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...
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 knowet...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
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 did...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Israel's Appeal to God. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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,...
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 44:23-2...
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 determi...
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 tra...
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...
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 Maccabe...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth, their condition being one of the greatest oppression and humility.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 51:23 ; Lamentations 4:5 ; Psalms 119:25 ; Psalms 66:11 ; Psalms 66:12
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Our soul — Our persons. Our belly — We are not only thrown down to the earth, but we lie there like dead carcases.

²⁵ For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 44:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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