Psalms 44:14

1 Kings 9:7; 2 Chronicles 7:20; 2 Kings 19:21; Deuteronomy 28:37; Isaiah 37:22; Jeremiah 24:9; Job 16:4; Lamentations 2:15-17; Psalms 22:7

Related Commentaries of Psalms 44:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou makest us a byword among heathen - The word rendered “by-word” - משׁל mâshâl - means properly a similitude or parable; then, a sentent...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. Thou makest us a byword - We are evidently abandoned by thee, and...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Shaking of the head. — Comp. Psalms 22:7 .
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...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

WHY DO GOD’S SAINTS SUFFER? ‘A byword among the heathen.’ Psalms 44:14 I. The contrast between the Old Testament position and the New —‘ Fo...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou makest us a byword among the Heathen ,.... Among the Papists, as the Jews were among the Gentiles, Deuteronomy 28:37 ; calling them schismatic...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. Ver. 14. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen ] Who use to...
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

A by-word, or a proverb . They used to say proverbially, More despicable or miserable than an Israelite . A shaking of the head; a gesture of...
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 makest us a byword among the heathen, their fate being bandied about in little verses of mockery, a shaking of the head among the people, in a...

¹⁴ Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 44:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake'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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit 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

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