Psalms 44:25
\44:24\Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
In Context
24\44:23\Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.
26\44:25\For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.
Cross References
Job 13:24Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
Psalms 66:11You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.
Psalms 119:25DALETH My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.
Lamentations 4:5Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 44:18-26
Israel's Appeal to God. 17 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… Read the whole commentary →