Psalms 44:9

Myrrh and balsam and cinnamon perfume your garments, from the houses of ivory. From these, they have delighted you:

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

8You have loved justice and hated iniquity. Because of this, God, your God, has anointed you, before your co-heirs, with the oil of gladness.

10the daughters of kings in your honor. The queen assisted at your right hand, in clothing of gold, encircled with diversity.

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Cross References

Psalms 60:1Unto the end. With hymns, of David.

Psalms 74:1Unto the end. May you not be corrupted. A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.

Psalms 88:14Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.

Psalms 108:11May the money lenders scrutinize all his belongings, and let foreigners plunder his labors.

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.

Lamentations 3:31CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever.

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 →

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