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Psalms 44:11O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 78:3-6Exod 13:14-15Deut 6:20Joel 1:3Judg 6:13Ps 42:1Ps 77:5Isa 38:19Num 21:14-16Ps 105:1-2
Psalms 44:22You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:17Ps 78:552 Sam 7:10Josh 11:23Josh 21:43Exod 34:11Ps 135:10-12Ps 80:8-111 Sam 5:6-7Deut 7:1
Psalms 44:33For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength, and good favor, for you were partial to them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 7:7-8Deut 8:17-18Josh 24:122 Cor 4:7Zech 4:6Deut 4:37-38Exod 15:16Ps 20:6Deut 10:15Ps 77:15
Psalms 44:44You are my king, O God. Decree Jacob’s deliverance.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 42:8Ps 74:12Mark 9:25Ps 149:2Ps 89:18Isa 33:22Mark 1:25-26Mark 1:31Mark 1:41
Psalms 44:55By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 108:13Ps 60:12Ps 118:10-13Phil 4:13Deut 33:17Dan 8:4Zech 10:5Isa 41:14-16Ps 91:131 Kgs 22:11
Psalms 44:66For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 17:47Hos 1:7Ps 20:7Ps 33:16-17
Psalms 44:77For you deliver us from our enemies; you humiliate those who hate us.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 136:24Ps 140:7Josh 1:5Josh 23:9-10Ps 132:18Josh 10:42Ps 144:10Ps 40:14Ps 53:5Ps 83:1-18
Psalms 44:88In God we boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name. (Selah)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 34:2Jer 9:241 Cor 1:29-31Rom 2:17Isa 45:25Ps 30:12Ps 115:1-18
Psalms 44:99But you rejected and embarrassed us. You did not go into battle with our armies.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 60:10Ps 74:1Ps 108:11Ps 60:1Ps 43:2Jer 33:24-26Lam 3:31-32Ps 89:38-45Rom 11:1-6Ps 80:12-13
Psalms 44:1010You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 7:8Lev 26:17Josh 7:12Ps 89:41Deut 28:25Isa 10:61 Sam 31:1-71 Sam 4:17Isa 10:14Jer 15:13
Psalms 44:1111You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:27Deut 28:64Ezek 34:12Rom 8:36Isa 11:11-12Jer 32:372 Kgs 17:6Jer 12:3Luke 21:24Ps 106:27
Psalms 44:1212You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 15:13Deut 32:30Isa 52:3-4Isa 50:1Judg 2:14Judg 3:8Neh 5:8-12Rev 18:13
Psalms 44:1313You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 79:4Ps 80:6Jer 24:9Deut 28:37Ezek 36:19-23Jer 48:27Ps 123:3-4Ps 89:41Ps 89:51
Psalms 44:1414You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 24:92 Kgs 19:21Deut 28:37Job 16:4Job 17:6Lam 2:15-171 Kgs 9:72 Chr 7:20Isa 37:22Ps 109:25
Psalms 44:1515All day long I feel humiliated and am overwhelmed with shame,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 69:72 Chr 32:21Jer 51:51Josh 7:7-9Ps 71:13Ezra 9:6Jer 3:25Ps 89:45
Psalms 44:1616before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 8:2Ps 74:10Ps 74:18Ps 74:22-23Isa 37:17Isa 37:23-24Isa 37:3-4Ps 79:12
Psalms 44:1717All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 9:13Deut 6:12Deut 8:14Ezek 16:59Ezek 20:37Isa 17:10Jer 2:32Jer 31:32Ps 44:20Ps 78:57
Psalms 44:1818We have not been unfaithful, nor have we disobeyed your commands.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:51Ps 119:157Job 23:11-12Ps 78:57Zeph 1:61 Cor 15:581 Kgs 15:5Jer 11:10Job 34:27Luke 17:32
Psalms 44:1919Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 23:4Job 3:5Isa 34:13-14Jer 14:17Job 30:29Ps 51:8Ezek 29:3Isa 27:1Isa 35:7Matt 4:16
Psalms 44:2020If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 81:9Job 11:13Deut 6:14Job 31:5-40Ps 68:31Ps 7:3-51 Kgs 8:22Exod 9:29Ps 44:17Ps 78:11
Psalms 44:2121would not God discover it, for he knows a person’s secret thoughts?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 17:10Jer 23:24Eccl 12:14Job 34:21-22Heb 4:12-13Job 31:41 Cor 4:5Ps 139:1-24Job 31:14Josh 22:22-23
Psalms 44:2222Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:36Isa 53:7Ps 44:111 Cor 4:9John 15:21John 16:2-31 Cor 15:30-31Matt 5:10-121 Kgs 19:101 Sam 22:17-19
Psalms 44:2323Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 7:6Ps 78:65Ps 35:23Ps 74:1Ps 77:7Ps 88:14Isa 51:9Mark 4:38Ps 12:5Ps 44:9
Psalms 44:2424Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 13:24Deut 32:20Ps 42:9Exod 2:23-24Ps 10:1Ps 10:11Ps 13:1Ps 43:1-4Ps 74:23Isa 40:27-28
Psalms 44:2525For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:25Isa 51:23Lam 4:5Ps 66:11-12
Psalms 44:2626Rise up and help us. Rescue us because of your loyal love.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 130:7-8Ps 25:22Ps 26:11Ps 35:2
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