Lectionary Calendar
Friday, May 9th, 2025
the Third Week after Easter
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

THE MESSAGE

Psalms 44:9

But now you've walked off and left us, you've disgraced us and won't fight for us. You made us turn tail and run; those who hate us have cleaned us out. You delivered us as sheep to the butcher, you scattered us to the four winds. You sold your people at a discount— you made nothing on the sale.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Murmuring;   War;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Korah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Army;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Korah, Korahites;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Justification (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Korah;   Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sab'aoth, the Lord of,;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But you have rejected and humiliated us;you do not march out with our armies.
Hebrew Names Version
But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, And don't go out with our armies.
King James Version
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
English Standard Version
But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies.
New Century Version
But you have rejected us and shamed us. You don't march with our armies anymore.
New English Translation
But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies.
Amplified Bible
But now You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And You do not go out with our armies [to lead us to victory].
New American Standard Bible
Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And do not go out with our armies.
World English Bible
But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, And don't go out with our armies.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But now thou art farre off, and puttest vs to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,And do not go out with our armies.
Berean Standard Bible
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
Contemporary English Version
But now you have rejected us; you don't lead us into battle, and we look foolish.
Complete Jewish Bible
We will boast in our God all day and give thanks to your name forever. (Selah)
Darby Translation
But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;
Easy-to-Read Version
But you left us and put us to shame. You did not go with us into battle.
George Lamsa Translation
But now thou hast forsaken us and put us to shame, and goest not forth with our armies:
Good News Translation
But now you have rejected us and let us be defeated; you no longer march out with our armies.
Lexham English Bible
Surely you have rejected and disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies.
Literal Translation
Now You have cast us off and have shamed us. And You do not go forth with our armies.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
We will allwaye make oure boast of God, and prayse thy name for euer.
American Standard Version
But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
Bible in Basic English
But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In God have we gloried all the day, and we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever. Selah
King James Version (1611)
But thou hast cast off and put vs to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But nowe thou art farre of, and thou puttest vs to confusion: neither goest thou foorth with our armies.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But now thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and thou wilt not go forth with our hosts.
English Revised Version
But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonour; and goest not forth with our hosts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
We schulen be preisid in God al dai; and in thi name we schulen knouleche to thee in to the world.
Update Bible Version
But now you have cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And don't go forth with our hosts.
Webster's Bible Translation
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
New King James Version
But You have cast us off and put us to shame, And You do not go out with our armies.
New Living Translation
But now you have tossed us aside in dishonor. You no longer lead our armies to battle.
New Life Bible
But now You have turned from us and have put us to shame. You do not go out with our armies.
New Revised Standard
Yet you have rejected us and abased us, and have not gone out with our armies.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(43-10) But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
Revised Standard Version
Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us, and hast not gone out with our armies.
Young's Literal Translation
In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And do not go out with our armies.

Contextual Overview

9But now you've walked off and left us, you've disgraced us and won't fight for us. You made us turn tail and run; those who hate us have cleaned us out. You delivered us as sheep to the butcher, you scattered us to the four winds. You sold your people at a discount— you made nothing on the sale. 13You made people on the street, urchins, poke fun and call us names. You made us a joke among the godless, a cheap joke among the rabble. Every day I'm up against it, my nose rubbed in my shame— Gossip and ridicule fill the air, people out to get me crowd the street.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 43:2, Psalms 60:1, Psalms 60:10, Psalms 74:1, Psalms 80:12, Psalms 80:13, Psalms 88:14, Psalms 89:38-45, Psalms 108:11, Jeremiah 33:24-26, Lamentations 3:31, Lamentations 3:32, Romans 11:1-6

Reciprocal: Judges 2:14 - could not 1 Samuel 4:2 - Israel Job 19:6 - God Job 29:5 - the Almighty Psalms 44:23 - cast Lamentations 1:6 - her princes Lamentations 5:22 - But thou hast utterly rejected us

Cross-References

Genesis 44:3
At break of day the men were sent off with their donkeys. They were barely out of the city when Joseph said to his house steward, "Run after them. When you catch up with them, say, ‘Why did you pay me back evil for good? This is the chalice my master drinks from; he also uses it for divination. This is outrageous!'"
Genesis 44:16
Judah as spokesman for the brothers said, "What can we say, master? What is there to say? How can we prove our innocence? God is behind this, exposing how bad we are. We stand guilty before you and ready to be your slaves—we're all in this together, the rest of us as guilty as the one with the chalice."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But thou hast cast off,.... This, with what follows to

Psalms 44:17, describe the desolate and afflicted state of the church, under the Gospel dispensation, in some parts and ages of it; and in the light in which it was viewed by the church, previous to the encouragement she took from the consideration of favours and benefits formerly bestowed, and of her covenant interest in God, related in the preceding verses. She looked upon herself as cast off, because afflicted and persecuted, and the Lord did not arise to her immediate help and deliverance; this may regard the ten persecutions under Rome Pagan; Psalms 44:17- :;

and put us to shame; before men, at the taking of the ark, as Arama; rather for their faith in God, and boasting of him, when he did not appear for them, but suffered them to continue in their afflictions and distresses; which occasioned their enemies to triumph over them, and say unto them, where is your God? and also before God, who being forsaken by him, could not come before him with that holy boldness and confidence they were wont to do; see Song of Solomon 2:14;

and goest not forth with our armies; as the Generalissimo of them; see 1 Samuel 8:20; not leading them forth, and going before them; not teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight; nor inspiring them with courage and valour; nor giving success and victory to them as formerly; but seeing that Christians, at least in the first ages of Christianity, had no armies in a literal sense, this may rather be understood of the lack of success of the Gospel in some period of it, and of the power and prevalence of antichrist, the man of sin. The Gospel ministry is a warfare; the preachers of it are good soldiers of Christ under him; their weapons are not carnal, but spiritual; great success attended the word in the first times of the Gospel; Christ went forth with his armies conquering and to conquer; and multitudes were subdued by him, and became subjects of him; but in some ages there has been but little success, few have believed the report of the Gospel, and been converted by it; Christ's ministers have laboured in vain, Satan's kingdom, though attacked, yet not weakened, nor Christ's kingdom enlarged, but rather all the reverse; antichrist has been suffered, as to make war with the saints, so to prevail and overcome, and will do so, Revelation 13:4; but it will not be always the case, Christ will go forth with his armies, and make great conquests again,

Revelation 11:15; this may refer to the wars of the Papists with the Waldenses and Albigenses, who were vanquished by the former.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But thou hast cast off - The author of the psalm now commences a description of the existing circumstances of the nation, so strongly in contrast with what had existed in former times when God interposed in their behalf, and when he gave them success. This is properly the commencement of the second part of the psalm, and the description is continued to Psalms 44:16. The Hebrew word here rendered “hast cast off” implies disgust and abhorrence, as the casting away of that which is loathsome. See the word explained in the notes at Psalms 43:2. The reference is to what had occurred at the time when the psalm was written. See introduction to this psalm. The allusion is to the invasion of the land by foreigners; their own discomfiture in their wars; and the calamities consequent on these invasions and defeats.

And put us to shame - By defeat and disgrace. See the word explained above, Psalms 44:7. For the defeat and discomfiture supposed to be referred to, see 2 Chronicles 35:20-27; 2 Chronicles 36:5-6.

And goest not forth with our armies - See the places referred to above. Thus Josiah was defeated and slain; and thus the land was conquered by the invaders.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 44:9. But thou hast cast off — Our enemies have dominion over us.

And goest not forth with our armies. — Were we to attempt to muster our several tribes, and form a host, like our fathers when they came out of Egypt, thou wouldst not accompany us as thou didst them: the horses and chariots of the Babylonians would soon overtake and destroy us.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile