{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/psa044.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/psa044.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/psa044.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nPsalms 44:4\n \npsa 44:4\nMy king - The whole people speak as one man, being united in one body. \nPsalms 44:11\n \npsa 44:11\nScattered - Those who were not slain are carried into captivity, and dispersed in several places. \nPsalms 44:16\n \npsa 44:16\nAvenger - Who executeth both God's and his own vengeance upon me. \nPsalms 44:17\n \npsa 44:17\nYet - Although we cannot excuse ourselves from many other sins, yet through thy grace we have kept ourselves from apostacy and idolatry, notwithstanding all examples and provocations. \nPsalms 44:18\n \npsa 44:18\nTurned - From thy worship to idols. \nPsalms 44:19\n \npsa 44:19\nBroken us - By inflicting upon us one breach after another, thou hast at last brought us to this pass. The place - A place extremely desolate, such as dragons love, Isa 13:21-22, and therefore full of horror, and danger. Covered us - With deadly horrors and miseries. \nPsalms 44:22\n \npsa 44:22\nYea - Because we are constant in thy worship, which they abhor. \nPsalms 44:25\n \npsa 44:25\nOur soul - Our persons. Our belly - We are not only thrown down to the earth, but we lie there like dead carcases.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 44","type":"page"}