Psalm 44:19

Translations

Modern

But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Traditional

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Literal

Yet You have crushed us in the place of jackals, and You have covered over us with the shadow of death.

Latin

…quoniam humiliasti nos in loco afflictionis, et cooperuit nos umbra mortis.

Original

Hebrew

English

But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Notes

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

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Psalm 23:4
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Job 3:5
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
Psalm 51:8
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
Isaiah 34:13–14
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
Job 30:29
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
Jeremiah 14:17
You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
Psalm 38:8
I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
Isaiah 35:7
The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
Psalm 60:1–3
For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Revelation 13:11–13
Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.
Revelation 16:10
And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish

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