Thematic Bible

Psalm 44:1

{To the Chanter, an instruction of the sons of Korah} We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what thou hast done in their time of old.

Psalm 44:2

How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou hast destroyed the nations and cast them out.

Psalm 44:3

For they got not the land in possession through their own sword, neither was it their own arm that helped them - But thy righthand, thine arm and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

Psalm 44:4

Thou art my King, O God; send help unto Jacob.

Psalm 44:5

Through thee will we overthrow our enemies, and in thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Psalm 44:6

For I will not trust in my bow; it is not my sword that shall help me.

Psalm 44:7

But it is thou that savest us from our enemies, and puttest them to confusion that hate us.

Psalm 44:8

We make our boast of God all day long, and will praise thy Name forever. Selah.

Psalm 44:9

But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 44:10

Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies, so that they which hate us spoil our goods.

Psalm 44:11

Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen.

Psalm 44:12

Thou sellest thy people for naught, and takest no money for them.

Psalm 44:13

Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us.

Psalm 44:14

Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.

Psalm 44:15

My confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Psalm 44:16

for the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer, for the enemy and avenger.

Psalm 44:17

And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave ourselves unfaithfully in thy covenant.

Psalm 44:18

Our heart is not turned back, neither our steps gone out of thy way,

Psalm 44:19

no, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death

Psalm 44:20

If we have forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange god,

Psalm 44:21

should not God find it out? For he knoweth the very secrets of the heart.

Psalm 44:22

For thy sake also we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 44:23

Arise, LORD! Why sleepest thou? Awake, and be not absent from us forever.

Psalm 44:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face? Wilt thou clean forget our misery and oppression?

Psalm 44:25

For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust; and our belly cleaveth unto the ground.

Psalm 44:26

Arise, O LORD, and help us; and deliver us for thy mercy's sake.