Isaiah 51:23; Lamentations 4:5; Psalms 119:25; Psalms 66:11; Psalms 66:12
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...
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...
XLIV. A National Prayer in Unmerited Distress. The Ps. evidently depicts the situation of Israel under Antiochus Epiphanes [but see OTJC 2, pp. 207...
our soul is . we ourselves are. Hebrew. nephesh.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 opp...
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...
Israel's Appeal to God. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not...
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,...
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...
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...
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.
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.