New English Translation
Psalms 44:9
9But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies.
Psalms 44:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
- New International Version (NIV)But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But You have cast us off and put us to shame, And You do not go out with our armies.
Context of Psalms 44:9
7For you deliver us from our enemies; you humiliate those who hate us. 8In God I boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name. (Selah) But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies. 10You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us. 11You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.
Read all of Psalms 44Psalms 44:9 word by word
אַף־זָ֭נַחְתָּ וַתַּכְלִימֵ֑נוּ וְלֹא־תֵ֝צֵ֗א בְּצִבְאוֹתֵֽינוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 44:9
- Psalms 43:2For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?
- Psalms 60:1O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!
- Psalms 74:1Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?
- Psalms 80:12Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?
- Psalms 89:38But you have spurned and rejected him; you are angry with your chosen king.
- Psalms 108:11Have you not rejected us, O God? O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.
- Jeremiah 33:24“You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation.
- Lamentations 3:31For the Lord will not reject us forever.
- Lamentations 3:32Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.
- Romans 11:1So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Commentaries on Psalms 44:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9But thou hast cast off - Our enemies have dominion over us. And goest not forth with our armies - Were we to attempt to muster our several tribes, and form a host, like our fathers when they came out of Egypt, thou wouldst not accompany us as thou didst them: the horses and chariots of the Babylonians would soon overtake and destroy us.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9But thou hast cast off - The author of the psalm now commences a description of the existing circumstances of the nation, so strongly in contrast with what had existed in former times when God interposed in their behalf, and when he gave them success. This is properly the commencement of the second part of the psalm, and the description is continued to Psalm 44:16. The Hebrew word here rendered “hast cast off” implies disgust and abhorrence, as the…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. 99. But--contrasting, cast off as abhorrent (Psa 43:2). goest not forth--literally, "will not go" (2Sa 5:23). In several consecutive verses the leading verb is future, and the following one past (in Hebrew), thus denoting the causes and effects. Thus (Psa 44:10-12), when defeated, spoiling follows; when delivered as sheep, dispersion follows, &c.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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