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Psalms 44:3

Gird your sword upon your thigh, O Mighty One, in your comeliness, and in your beauty; 1

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2You are more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever. 1

4and bend your bow, and prosper, and reign, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall guide you wonderfully. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 15:16Let trembling and fear fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm, let them become as stone; till your people pass over, O Lord, till this your people pass over, whom you have purchased.

Deuteronomy 4:37Because he loved your fathers, he also chose you their seed after them, and he brought you himself with his great strength out of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 8:17Lest you should say in your heart, My strength, and the power of my hand have wrought for me this great wealth.

Joshua 3:10Hereby you⌃ shall know that the living God is among you, and will utterly destroy from before our face the Chananite, and the Chettite and Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Amorite, and the Gergesite, and the Jebusite.

1 Samuel 12:22For the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name's sake, because the Lord graciously took you to himself for a people.

2 Chronicles 20:7Are not you the Lord that did destroy the inhabitants of this land before the face of your people Israel, and did give it to your beloved seed of Abraham for ever?

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

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Study Psalms 44:3

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