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Psalms 44:3 — King James Version← Study notes

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.


Psalms 44:3Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 44:38 words
HebrewMeaning
אַתָּ֤הʾatāh
youprepH859
thou · ye · you
יָדְ/ךָ֡yādəkā
hand yournounH3027
about · armholes · at · axletree ···
גּוֹיִ֣םgwōyim
nationsnounH1471
heathen · nation · people
ה֭וֹרַשְׁתָּhwōrašətā
you dispossessedverbH3423
consume · destroy · disinherit · dispossess ···
וַ/תִּטָּעֵ֑/םwatiṭāʿēm
and you planted themconjH5193
plant
תָּרַ֥עtāraʿ
you did harm toverbH7489
associate selves (by mistake for
לְ֝אֻמִּ֗יםləʾumiym
peoplesnounH3816
people
וַֽ/תְּשַׁלְּחֵֽ/םwatəšaləḥēm
and you set free themconjH7971
any wise · bring · cast (away · out) ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 44:3

1. This Psalm is addressed “to the sons of Korah,” as its title shows. Now Korah is equivalent to the word baldness; and we find in the Gospel that our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified in “the place of a skull.” It is clear then that this Psalm is sung to the “sons of His 'Passion.'” Now we have on this point a most certain and most evident testimony from the Apostle Paul; because that at the time when the Church was suffering under the persecutions of the Gentiles, he quoted…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 44 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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