Psalm 44:10

Translations

Modern

You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

Traditional

Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

Literal

You make us turn back from the adversary, and those hating us have taken plunder for themselves.

Latin

Avertisti nos retrorsum post inimicos nostros, et qui oderunt nos diripiebant sibi.

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English

You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

Notes

Psalms 44:9–16

The people have experienced defeat (Psalm 44:9–12), so they understand suffering and shame (44:13–16).

Psalms 44:1–26

This national lament after a defeat in battle continues the tone of the previous two psalms. It reflects on an unspecified moment in Israel's history and calls on God for salvation. The people:

recite God's past acts of rescue (Psalm 44:1–3),
recognize God's power to save (Psalm 44:4–8),
describe their humiliation in exile (Psalm 44:9–16),
claim their innocence and lament the injustice of their current situation (Psalm 44:17–22), and
cry for vindication (Psalm 44:23–26).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints

Related verses

Leviticus 26:17
And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
Joshua 7:8
O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
Joshua 7:12
This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.
Psalm 89:41
All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Deuteronomy 28:25
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Leviticus 26:36–37
As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
Jeremiah 20:8
For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
Leviticus 26:14
If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
1 Samuel 4:17
The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
Jeremiah 15:13
Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
1 Samuel 31:1–7
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

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