Chapter 44
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
A. M. 3294. B.C. 710. (Title.) for the sons
42.1 *title
have heard
22.31 71.18 78.3-6 105.1,2 Exodus 12.24-27 13.14,15 Isaiah 38.19 Joel 1.3
in the times
Numbers 21.14-16,27-30 Job 8.8,9 15.17-19
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
drive out
78.55 80.8 105.44 135.10-12 136.17-22 Exodus 15.17,19 34.11 Deuteronomy 7.1 Joshua 10.42 11.23 21.43 Nehemiah 9.22-27
how thou didst afflict, etc
Or, rather, "how thou didst afflict the peoples (of Canaan,) and madest them (the Hebrews) to shoot forth;" for shalach is to send forth in any manner, and is applied to a vine spreading its roots, etc. Ps 89:9; Eze 17:6; Jer 17:8; and this sense is parallel with plantedst in the former line.
Exodus 23.28 Numbers 13.32 Joshua 10.11 24.12 1 Samuel 5.6,7
For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
For
Deuteronomy 4.37,38 8.17,18 Joshua 24.12 Zechariah 4.6 2 Corinthians 4.7
thy right
17.7 20.6 74.11 Exodus 15.16 Isaiah 63.12
light
because
Numbers 14.8 Deuteronomy 7.7,8 1 Samuel 12.22 Malachi 1.2,3 Romans 9.10-15
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
my king
74.12 89.18 149.2 Isaiah 33.22
command
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Through thee
18.39-42 118.10-13 Isaiah 41.14-16 Philippians 4.13
push
Deuteronomy 33.17 1 Kings 22.11 Daniel 8.4
tread
60.12 91.13 108.13 Zechariah 10.5 Romans 16.20 *marg:
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
But
140.7 144.10 Joshua 1.5 10.8-10,42 11.6 23.9,10 Judges 2.18 7.4-7 1 Samuel 7.8-12 14.6-10 17.47 2 Samuel 7.10
put them
In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
In God
34.2 Isaiah 45.25 Jeremiah 9.24 Romans 2.17 1 Corinthians 1.29-31
praise
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
43.2 60.1,10 74.1 80.12,13 88.14 89.38-45 108.11 Jeremiah 33.24-26 Lamentations 3.31 3.32 Romans 11.1-6
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Thou
Leviticus 26.14,17,36,37 Deuteronomy 28.25 Joshua 7.8,12 1 Samuel 4.17 31.1-7
spoil
89.41 Isaiah 10.6,14 Jeremiah 15.13 20.8
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
given
like sheep appointed for meat
Heb. as sheep of meat.
scattered
60.1 Deuteronomy 4.27 28.64 2 Kings 17.6 Isaiah 11.11,12 Jeremiah 32.37 Ezekiel 34.12 Luke 21.24
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
sellest
Deuteronomy 32.30 Isaiah 50.1 52.3,4 Jeremiah 15.13
for nought
Heb. without riches. increase.
Nehemiah 5.8-12 Revelation 18.13
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
makest
79.4 80.6 89.51 Jeremiah 24.9 Ezekiel 36.19-23
scorn
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
by-word
Deuteronomy 28.37 1 Kings 9.7 2 Chronicles 7.20 Jeremiah 24.9
shaking
22.7 2 Kings 19.21 Job 16.4 Isaiah 37.22 Lamentations 2.15-17
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
confusion
Joshua 7.7-9 Ezra 9.6 Jeremiah 3.25
covered
69.7 71.13 89.45 Jeremiah 51.51
For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
For the
74.18,22,23 79.12 Isaiah 37.3,4,17,23,24
enemy
All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
All this
yet
20 9.17 Deuteronomy 6.12 8.14 Isaiah 17.10 Jeremiah 2.32
dealt
Jeremiah 31.32 Ezekiel 16.59 20.37
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
heart
78.57 125.5 1 Kings 15.5 Job 34.27 Jeremiah 11.10 Zephaniah 1.6 Luke 17.32
have
119.51,157 Job 23.11,12 1 Corinthians 15.58 1 Thessalonians 2.10
steps
or, goings.
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Though
in the
74.13,14 Isaiah 27.1 34.13,14 35.7 Ezekiel 29.3 Revelation 12.9 13.2,11-13 Revelation 16.10
with the
23.4 Job 3.5 10.21,22 Matthew 4.16
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
If we
stretched
68.31 Exodus 9.29 1 Kings 8.22 Job 11.13
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Shall
139.1-24 Job 31.4,14 34.21,22 Jeremiah 17.10 23.24
knoweth
Joshua 22.22,23 Ecclesiastes 12.14 Romans 2.16 1 Corinthians 4.5 Hebrews 4.12,13 Revelation 2.23
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Yea
killed
11 79.2,3 1 Samuel 22.17-19 1 Kings 19.10 Matthew 5.10-12 John 15.21 John 16.2,3 1 Corinthians 4.9 15.30,31 Revelation 11.3-9 17.6
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Awake
7.6 12.5 35.23 59.4,5 78.65 Isaiah 51.9 Mark 4.38
cast
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Wherefore
10.1,11 13.1 43.1-4 Deuteronomy 32.20 Job 13.24
forgettest
74.19,23 Exodus 2.23,24 Isaiah 40.27,28 Revelation 6.9,10
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
66.11,12 119.25 Isaiah 51.23 Lamentations 4.5
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
for our help
Heb. a help for us. redeem.