Psalms 44:25
For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
In Context
24Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?
26Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.
Cross References
Job 13:24Wherefore, thy face, shouldst thou hide? Or count me, as an enemy to thee?
Psalms 66:11Thou didst bring us into the hunter’s net, Thou didst lay a load upon our loins;
Psalms 119:25[DALETH.] My soul, cleaveth to the dust, Give me life, according to thy word.
Lamentations 4:5They who used to eat delicacies, are deserted in the streets,—They who used to be carried on crimson, have embraced heaps of refuse.
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 →