Psalms 44:6

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For I do not trust in my bow,and my sword does not bring me victory.

Hebrew Names Version
For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.

King James Version
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

English Standard Version
For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.

New Century Version
I don't trust my bow to help me, and my sword can't save me.

New English Translation
For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword.

Amplified Bible
For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.

New American Standard Bible
For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.

World English Bible
For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For I do not trust in my bowe, neither can my sworde saue me.

Legacy Standard Bible
For I will not trust in my bow,And my sword will not save me.

Berean Standard Bible
For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword deliver me.

Contemporary English Version
I don't depend on my arrows or my sword to save me.

Complete Jewish Bible
Through you we pushed away our foes, through your name we trampled down our assailants.

Darby Translation
For I will not put confidence in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Easy-to-Read Version
I don't put my trust in my bow. My sword cannot save me.

George Lamsa Translation
For we trust not in our bows; neither on our armour to save us.

Good News Translation
I do not trust in my bow or in my sword to save me;

Lexham English Bible
For I do not trust my bow, and my sword cannot give me victory.

Literal Translation
For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thorow ye, wil we ouerthrowe oure enemies: & in thy name will we treade them vnder, that ryse vp agaynst vs.

American Standard Version
For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.

Bible in Basic English
I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Through Thee do we push down our adversaries; through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us.

King James Version (1611)
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword saue me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I wyll not trust in my bowe: and it is not my sworde that can saue me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.

English Revised Version
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bi thee we schulen wyndewe oure enemyes with horn; and in thi name we schulen dispise hem, that risen ayen vs.

Update Bible Version
For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

New King James Version
For I will not trust in my bow, Nor shall my sword save me.

New Living Translation
I do not trust in my bow; I do not count on my sword to save me.

New Life Bible
For I will not trust my bow, and my sword will not save me.

New Revised Standard
For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, not in my bow, will I trust, Nor shall, my sword, give me victory;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(43-7) For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.

Revised Standard Version
For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.

Young's Literal Translation
For, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.

Contextual Overview

¹A Psalm of the Sons of Korah We've been hearing about this, God, all our lives. Our fathers told us the stories their fathers told them, How single-handedly you weeded out the godless from the fields and planted us, How you sent those people packing but gave us a fresh start. We didn't fight for this land; we didn't work for it—it was a gift! You gave it, smiling as you gave it, delighting as you gave it. ⁴You're my King, O God— command victories for Jacob! With your help we'll wipe out our enemies, in your name we'll stomp them to dust. I don't trust in weapons; my sword won't save me— But it's you, you who saved us from the enemy; you made those who hate us lose face. All day we parade God's praise— we thank you by name over and over.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 20:7, Psalms 33:16, Psalms 33:17, Hosea 1:7

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:23 - the Lord 1 Samuel 17:45 - Thou comest 1 Samuel 17:47 - saveth not 2 Kings 6:22 - thy sword Job 40:14 - that Psalms 18:29 - by thee

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will not trust in my bow,.... In any carnal weapon, in any creature help and assistance, or in an arm of flesh, but in the word of the Lord, and in his name; see Psalms 20:7;

neither shall my sword save me; that is, I will not ascribe salvation to it; the church's weapons are not carnal, but spiritual; not the sword of the civil magistrate, but the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; Christ's kingdom, being not of this world, is not supported and defended by worldly means, or carnal weapons.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I will not trust in my bow - The author of the psalm himself again speaks as expressing his own feelings, and stating the grounds of his confidence and hope. Compare Psalms 44:4. At the same time he doubtless expresses the feelings of the people, and speaks in their name. He had said Psalms 44:3 that the ancestors of the Jewish people had not obtained possession of the promised land by any strength or skill of their own, and he now says that he, and those who were connected with him, did not depend on their own strength, or on the weapons of war which they might employ, but that their only ground of trust was God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 44:6. I will not trust in my bow — As he is speaking of what God had already done for his forefathers, these words should be read in the past tense: "We have not trusted," &c.