Psalms 44:5
Through you we can thrust back our foes, and by your name tread down our assailants:
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In Context
4It was you, my king and my God, that ordained the victories of Jacob.
6for not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword win me the victory.
Cross References
Psalms 18:39You did arm me with strength for war, you did bow my assailants beneath me.
Psalms 91:13You will trample down lions and snakes, tread on young lions and cobras.
Psalms 118:10Everywhere heathen swarmed round me; in the name of the Lord I cut them down.
Zechariah 10:5Together they will trample on warriors, as on the dirt of the streets in battle. They fight, for the Lord is with them, putting the riders on horses to shame.
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 →