Psalms 44:7
For I will not trust in my bow : neither shall my sword save me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
In Context
8But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us : and hast put them to shame that hate us.
Cross References
Joshua 1:5No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Joshua 10:42And all their kings, and their lands he took and wasted at one onset: for the Lord the God of Israel fought for him.
Joshua 23:9And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.
Judges 7:4And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people are still too many, bring them to the waters, and there I will try them: and of whom I shall say to thee, This shall go with thee, let him go: whom I shall forbid to go, let him return.
1 Samuel 14:6And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the Lord will do for us, because it is easy for the Lord to save either by many, or by few.
2 Samuel 7:10And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they shall dwell therein, and shall be disturbed no more: neither shall the children of iniquity afflict them any more as they did before,
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 →