Psalms 44:8
You have loved justice and hated iniquity. Because of this, God, your God, has anointed you, before your co-heirs, with the oil of gladness.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
In Context
7Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of true aim.
Cross References
Psalms 34:2Take hold of weapons and a shield, and rise up in assistance to me.
Psalms 115:1Alleluia. I had confidence, because of what I was saying, but then I was greatly humbled.
Jeremiah 9:24But he who glories should glory in this: to know me and to know me well. For I am the Lord, who accomplishes mercy and judgment and justice upon the earth. For these things are pleasing to me, says the Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:29So then, nothing that is of the flesh should glory in his sight.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 44:2-9
Grateful Acknowledgment of Past Mercies; Consecration to God. 1 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… Read the whole commentary →