Ezekiel 36:19-23; Jeremiah 24:9; Jeremiah 48:27; Psalms 123:3; Psalms 123:4; Psalms 79:4; Psalms 8:1
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors - Compare the notes at Psalms 39:8 . The word neighbors here refers to surrounding people or nations....
XLIV. A National Prayer in Unmerited Distress. The Ps. evidently depicts the situation of Israel under Antiochus Epiphanes [but see OTJC 2, pp. 207...
a reproach. Compare Rab-shakeh's harangue ( 2 Kings 18:27-35 ) with verses: Psalms 44:13 ; Psalms 44:14 . See App-67.
13 Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbors Here the Psalmist speaks of their neighbors, who were all actuated either by some secret il...
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. Thou makest us a reproach ... a byword a...
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...
These verses become very suggestive, if we refer them to one of those periods under the Seleucidæ, when the Jews were so frequently attacked on the S...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours ,.... Which is the common lot of Christians: Christ and his apostles have given reason for the saints in...
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. Ver. 13. Thou makest us a reproach to our nei...
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...
Afflicted Condition of Israel. 9 But thou hast cast off, and put us t...
They contemn our persons, and sport themselves in our miseries.
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...
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 . 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...
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...
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, so that the surrounding nations would regard them with derision, a scorn and a derision to them that are...
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.