Psalms 44:12

Deuteronomy 32:30; Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 52:3; Isaiah 52:4; Jeremiah 15:13; Nehemiah 5:8-12; Revelation 18:13

Related Commentaries of Psalms 44:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou sellest thy people for nought - Margin, without riches. Without gain, or advantage; that is, for no price that would be an equivalent. The p...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thou sellest thy people (l) for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price. (l) As slaves who are sold for a low price, you do not lo...
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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12 Thou hast sold thy people, and not become rich. In saying that they were sold without any gain, it is meant that they were exposed to sal...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. Thou sellest thy people for nought - An allusion to the mode o...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thou sellest thy people for nought— "Sufferest them to be sold for slaves at a very inconsiderable price." This expression implies the low esteem i...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. Thou sellest thy people for nought - Thou holdest thy pe...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

For nought, etc.] God does not gain by such transactions. His name and cause are rather discredited. 13, 14. See the speech of Rabshakeh ( 2 Kin...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For nought. — Literally, for not riches (comp. Jeremiah 15:13 ); notice the contrast to Psalms 72:14 . And dost not increase thy wealth by th...
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

Here is a melancholy state described: and what added to the affliction, the church beheld the Lord's hand in the appointment. Though the Lord's affli...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou sellest thy people for nought ,.... So God, when he is said to deliver up his people into the hands of their enemies, is said to sell them to t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price. Ver. 12. Thou sellest thy people for nought ] Thirty for...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou hast given us like sheep , &c. Some of us they killed in the pursuit, without any mercy, like sheep appointed for the shambles. And hast s...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Afflicted Condition of Israel. 9 But thou hast cast off, and put us t...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For nought; for a thing of nought. Or, without money , and without price , as it is said, Isaiah 55:1 ; for a very small, or for no price; for...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

In View Of Their Trust In God They Cannot Understand Why Therefore They Have Faced Defeat At The Hands Of Their Enemies So That Some Of His People H...
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

Thou sellest Thy people for naught, for a song, as though they were worthless, insignificant, as if He no longer cared for them, and dost not increa...

¹² Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 44:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

Psalms 44:12