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Psalms 44:9

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Yet You have rejected [us] and brought us to dishonor, And do not go out with our armies.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonour; and goest not forth with our hosts.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— But now thou art farre off, and puttest vs to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— But thou hast cast off and put vs to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— But now thou hast forsaken us and put us to shame, and goest not forth with our armies.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— But now thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and thou wilt not go forth with our hosts.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
But 637
{0637} Prime
אַף
'aph
{af}
A primitive particle; meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjugation); also or yea; adversatively though.
thou hast cast off, 2186
{2186} Prime
זָנַח
zanach
{zaw-nakh'}
A primitive root meaning to push aside, that is, reject, forsake, fail.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
and put us to shame; 3637
{3637} Prime
כָּלָם
kalam
{kaw-lawm'}
A primitive root; properly to wound; but only figuratively, to taunt or insult.
z8686
<8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 4046
and goest not forth 3318
{3318} Prime
יָצָא
yatsa'
{yaw-tsaw'}
A primitive root; to go (causatively bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proximate.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
with our armies. 6635
{6635} Prime
צָבָא
tsaba'
{tsaw-baw'}
From H6633; a mass of persons (or figurative things), especially regularly organized for war (an army); by implication a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically hardship, worship).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Psalms 44:9

_ _ But — contrasting, cast off as abhorrent (Psalms 43:2).

_ _ goest not forth — literally, “will not go” (2 Samuel 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 (Psalms 44:10-12), when defeated, spoiling follows; when delivered as sheep, dispersion follows, etc.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

Psalms 44:9-16

_ _ The people of God here complain to him of the low and afflicted condition that they were now in, under the prevailing power of their enemies and oppressors, which was the more grievous to them because they were now trampled upon, who had always been used, in their struggles with their neighbours, to win the day and get the upper hand, and because those were now their oppressors whom they had many a time triumphed over and made tributaries, and especially because they had boasted in their God with great assurance that he would still protect and prosper them, which made the distress they were in, and the disgrace they were under, the more shameful. Let us see what the complaint is.

_ _ I. That they wanted the usual tokens of God's favour to them and presence with them (Psalms 44:9): “Thou hast cast off; thou seemest to have cast us off and our cause, and to have cast off thy wonted care of us and concern for us, and so hast put us to shame, for we boasted of the constancy and perpetuity of thy favour. Our armies go forth as usual, but they are put to flight; we gain no ground, but lose what we have gained, for thou goest not forth with them, for, if thou didst, which way soever they turned they would prosper; but it is quite contrary.” Note, God's people, when they are cast down, are tempted to think themselves cast off and forsaken of God; but it is a mistake. Hath God cast away his people? God forbid, Romans 11:1.

_ _ II. That they were put to the worst before their enemies in the field of battle (Psalms 44:10): Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy, as Joshua complained when they met with a repulse at Ai (Joshua 7:8): “We are dispirited, and have lost the ancient valour of Israelites; we flee, we fall, before those that used to flee and fall before us; and then those that hate us have the plunder of our camp and of our country; they spoil for themselves, and reckon all their own that they can lay their hands on. Attempts to shake off the Babylonish yoke have been ineffectual, and we have rather lost ground by them.”

_ _ III. That they were doomed to the sword and to captivity (Psalms 44:11): “Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat. They make no more scruple of killing an Israelite than of killing a sheep; nay, like the butcher, they make a trade of it, they take a pleasure in it as a hungry man in his meat; and we are led with as much ease, and as little resistance, as a lamb to the slaughter; many are slain, and the rest scattered among the heathen, continually insulted by their malice or in danger of being infected by their iniquities.” They looked upon themselves as bought and sold, and charged it upon God, Thou sellest thy people, when they should have charged it upon their own sin. For your iniquities have you sold yourselves, Isaiah 50:1. However, thus far was right that they looked above the instruments of their trouble and kept their eye upon God, as well knowing that their worst enemies had no power against them but what was given them from above; they own it was God that delivered them into the hand of the ungodly, as that which is sold is delivered to the buyer. Thou sellest them for nought, and dost not increase in their price (so it may be read); “thou dost not sell them by auction, to those that will bid most for them, but in haste, to those that will bid first for them; any one shall have them that will.” Or, as we read it, Thou dost not increase thy wealth by their price, intimating that they could have suffered this contentedly if they had been sure that it would redound to the glory of God and that his interest might be some way served by their sufferings; but it was quite contrary: Israel's disgrace turned to God's dishonour, so that he was so far from being a gainer in his glory by the sale of them that it should seem he was greatly a loser by it; see Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:20.

_ _ IV. That they were loaded with contempt, and all possible ignominy was put upon them. In this also they acknowledge God: “Thou makest us a reproach; thou bringest those calamities upon us which occasion the reproach, and thou permittest their virulent tongues to smite us.” They complain, 1. That they were ridiculed and bantered, and were looked upon as the most contemptible people under the sun; their troubles were turned to their reproach, and upon the account of them they were derided. 2. That their neighbours, those about them, from whom they could not withdraw, were most abusive to them, Psalms 44:13. 3. That the heathen, the people that were strangers to the commonwealth of Israel and aliens to the covenants of promise, made them a by-word, and shook the head at them, as triumphing in their fall, Psalms 44:14. 4. That the reproach was constant and incessant (Psalms 44:15): My confusion is continually before me. The church in general, the psalmist in particular, were continually teased and vexed with the insults of the enemy. Concerning those that are going down every one cries, “Down with them.” 5. That it was very grievous, and in a manner overwhelmed him: The shame of my face has covered me. He blushed for sin, or rather for the dishonour done to God, and then it was a holy blushing. 6. That it reflected upon God himself; the reproach which the enemy and the avenger cast upon them was downright blasphemy against God, Psalms 44:16, and 2 Kings 19:3. There was therefore strong reason to believe that God would appear for them. As there is no trouble more grievous to a generous and ingenuous mind than reproach and calumny, so there is none more grievous to a holy gracious soul than blasphemy and dishonour done to God.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Psalms 44:9

But thou hast cast off, and put us to (i) shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

(i) As they confessed before that their strength came from God, so now they acknowledge that this affliction came by his just judgment.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance

Psalms 43:2 For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 60:1 [[To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.]] O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
Psalms 60:10 [Wilt] not thou, O God, [which] hadst cast us off? and [thou], O God, [which] didst not go out with our armies?
Psalms 74:1 [[Maschil of Asaph.]] O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalms 80:12-13 Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? ... The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Psalms 88:14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?
Psalms 89:38-45 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. ... The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms 108:11 [Wilt] not [thou], O God, [who] hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
Jeremiah 33:24-26 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. ... Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Lamentations 3:31-32 For the Lord will not cast off for ever: ... But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Romans 11:1-6 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin. ... And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
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Ps 43:2; 60:1, 10; 74:1; 80:12; 88:14; 89:38; 108:11. Jr 33:24. Lm 3:31. Ro 11:1.

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