Psalms 44:25
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaves unto the earth.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
In Context
24Wherefore hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
26Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.
Cross References
Job 13:24Wherefore hide you your face, and hold me for yours enemy?
Psalms 66:11You brought us into the net; you laid affliction upon our loins.
Psalms 119:25My soul cleaves unto the dust: you restore life in me according to your word.
Lamentations 4:5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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 →