Psalm 44
Deliverance in All Our Trials
TEXT: Psalm 44 (26 verses)
Introduction to Psalm 44
Psalm 44 is part of the Second Division (there are five altogether) of the Book of Psalms. There are 31 Psalms (Psalms 42-72) in this section. David wrote 18 of them, Solomon wrote 1 (Psalm 72), and the rest were written by Korah.
This is called the Exodus section, for in them we get a sense of the nation in ruin but calling out to God for deliverance. They speak of how God is able to rescue His people.
But Thou hast saved Us. vs. 1-8
Psalm 44:1-8—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. 2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. 3 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. 4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. 5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. 6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. 7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. 8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
But Thou hast cast off. vs. 9-16
Psalms 44:9-16—But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. 10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. 11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, 16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
But Thou hast cast off. vs. 9
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy v.10
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat. v.11
Thou sellest thy people for nought. v.12
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours a scorn and a derision 13
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. v.14
Thou hast sore broken us. vs. 17-26
Psalms 44:17-26—All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
Temptations, Testings, Trials, Torture
Temptations
1Th 3:5; 1Co 10:13; Jas 1:12-14; James 1:2
Testings
Ps 11:4; 26:2; 139:23; 17:3; 18:30; 66:10; 105:19; Heb 11:17; Jas 1:12; 1Pe 1:7
Trial of Faith
James 1:3; 1 Peter 1:7
Tortured for our faith
Ac 22:29; Heb 11:35; Ps 44:1; Ro 4:19; Ps 44:1
Deliverances
Psalm 44:4—Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
Their prayer is for deliverances.
A series of deliverances, a deliverance from every danger. A Continual Trust
Mt 8:8; Ps 107:20; Ps 56:13; Ps 116:8-9; 2Co 1:7-9
All deliverance: serious danger-peril | sickness | sorrow | self
Command deliverances, as one having authority, whose command will be obeyed. IN GOD WE TRUST. IN GOD WE BOAST. IN GOD WE REJOICE.
Psalm 44:6,8, 26
IN GOD IS OUR HELP. IN GOD IS OUR REDEMPTION.
Psalm 44:6—For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
Zec 4:6; Ro 9:32; Ga 2:16; Eph 2:10; Tit 3:5; Jas 2:22-26; 1Pe 5:2; 2 Co 5:7; Ps. 44:22; Romans 8:31,36
The predictions of this Prophecy show continual trouble
The prophet in Ps 44:22, foresaw a wicked world would always persecute and oppress the true followers of God. All the day long. Continually; constantly. There is no intermission to our danger, and to our exposure to death.
We are killed all the day long; constantly suffer, and are exposed to death. We are accounted as sheep. We are reckoned; or regarded, or dealt with. Our enemies judge that we ought to die, and deem us subjects of slaughter, with as little concern or remorse as the lives of sheep are taken.
Rom. 8:36. As it is written,(Ps 44:22) --quoted as descriptive of what God's faithful people may expect from their enemies at any period when their hatred of righteousness is roused, and there is nothing to restrain it
Ga 4:29; 5:11; Ga 6:17; Col 1:24; Ro 5:3; Jas 1:2-3,12; Joh 16:33; Php 1:29; Ac 5:41; Mt 5:11-12; Ps. 44:22; Ro 8:36; 2 Co 4:11; 1Co 15:30-31; 1 Co 4:9; 2 Co 10:10; 2 Co 11:22-33; 2Co 12:5-9; 1 Pe 2:12; 1 Pe 3:16-17; 1 Pe 4:14; Php. 3:4-21
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