Psalms 44:6

+ 44:6 Heb 1:8-10 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness. 1

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

In Context

5Your weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under you) they are in the heart of the king's enemies. 1

7You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your fellows. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:47And all this assembly shall know that the Lord delivers not by sword or spear, for the battle is the Lord's, and the Lord will deliver you into our hands.

Psalms 33:16but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to destroy their memorial from the earth. The righteous cried, and the Lord listened to them, 1

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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