Psalms 44:25
For our soul is humbled down to the dust : our belly cleaveth to the earth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
In Context
24Why turnest thou face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
26Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name's sake.
Cross References
Job 13:24Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?
Psalms 66:11Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast laid afflictions on our back:
Lamentations 4:5He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.
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 →