Psalms 44:19
But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
In Context
18We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.
20If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
Cross References
Job 10:21Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
Job 30:29A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
Psalms 38:8I have been feeble and smitten — unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.
Psalms 60:1To the Overseer. — 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt — twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us — hadst been angry! — Thou dost turn back to us.
Isaiah 27:1In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword — the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan — a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan — a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that [is] in the sea.
Isaiah 35:7And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.
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 →