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Psalms 44:12
12You have sold your own people, for almost nothing! They had no value to you.
Psalms 44:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
- New International Version (NIV)You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You sell Your people for next to nothing, And are not enriched by selling them.
Context of Psalms 44:12
10You make us run away from our enemies. The people who hate us take from us whatever they like! 11You have put us under their power, so that they kill us like sheep for them to eat. You have sent us away to live in foreign countries. You have sold your own people, for almost nothing! They had no value to you. 13The people who live in countries near us do not respect us. They laugh at us and they insult us. 14The other nations tell jokes about us. They think that we are nothing.
Read all of Psalms 44Psalms 44:12 word by word
תִּמְכֹּֽר־עַמְּךָ֥ בְלֹא־ה֑וֹן וְלֹ֥א־רִ֝בִּ֗יתָ בִּמְחִירֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 44:12
- Deuteronomy 32:30One man can chase away 1,000 of my people! Two men can chase away 10,000 of them! How can that happen? God, their strong Rock, has left them. The Lord has given their enemies power over them.
- Isaiah 50:1This is what the Lord says to his people: ‘Did I send your mother away, like a man sends away his wife? Where is the paper to say why I have sent her away? Did I sell you to pay people that I was in debt to? Where is the paper that shows the reason for my debt? Listen! I sold you because of your sins. I sent your mother away because you have not obeyed me.
- Isaiah 52:3This is what the Lord says to you: ‘I received no money when I sold you. And I will not pay anything to make you free again.’
- Jeremiah 15:12Your enemy that comes from the north is like a weapon made from iron and bronze. You will never break it.
- Nehemiah 5:8I said to them all, ‘When our own Jewish people have become slaves of foreign people, we have tried hard to buy them back. But now you are making your own people sell their children to you. And you want us to pay you to buy them back again!’ The Jewish leaders kept quiet. They had nothing to say.
- Revelation 18:13Different kinds of spice and incense, like myrrh and frankincense. Wine, olive oil, expensive flour and wheat. Cows and sheep. Horses and chariots. Human slaves.
Commentaries on Psalms 44:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Thou sellest thy people for nought - An allusion to the mode of disposing of slaves by their proprietors or sovereigns. Instead of seeking profit, thou hast made us a present to our enemies.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Thou sellest thy people for nought - Margin, without riches. Without gain, or advantage; that is, for no price that would be an equivalent. The people were given up to their enemies, but there was nothing in return that would be of equal value. The loss was in no way made up. They were taken away from their country and their homes. They were withdrawn from useful labor in the land; there was a great diminution of the national strength and of the national…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-16Verses 9-16 The believer must have times of temptation, affliction, and discouragement; the church must have seasons of persecution. At such times the people of God will be ready to fear that he has cast them off, and that his name and truth will be dishonoured. But they should look above the instruments of their trouble, to God, well knowing that their worst enemies have no power against them, but what is permitted from above.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-16The people have experienced defeat (Psalm 44:9–12), so they understand suffering and shame (44:13–16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-261-3. This period is that of the settlement of Canaan (Jos 24:12; Jud 6:3). have told--or, "related" (compare Ex 10:2).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 44
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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