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title: "Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "James Anderson"
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# Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5

*John Calvin, tr. James Anderson*

Calvin on the Psalms, volume 5 of 5.

## 67. Psalm 44

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[¶0] To the Chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. Giving instruction

[¶1] 1 O God! with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have told us, The work which thou hast done in their days, In the days of old.

[¶2] 2 Thou with thy hand hast expelled the heathen, and planted them: Thou hast wasted the peoples and multiplied them:

[¶3] 3 For not by their own sword acquired they the land, And their own arm did not save them; But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, Because thou wast favorable to them.

[¶4] 4 Thou, even thou, art my King; O God! command salvations for Jacob.

[¶5] 5 Through thee our adversaries with the horn we have pushed; In thy name we have trampled under foot those who rise up against us.

[¶6] 6 For not in my bow will I trust, And my sword will not save me.

[¶7] 7 Surely thou hast saved us from our enemies, And our haters thou hast put to shame.

[¶8] 8 In God we will boast all the day, And thy name for ever shall we praise. Selah.

[¶9] 9 Nevertheless thou hast abhorred us and put us to shame, And thou goest not forth any more with our armies.

[¶10] 10 Thou hast made us to turn back from him that afflicteth us, And our haters have spoiled us for themselves.

[¶11] 11 Thou hast given us as sheep for food; And among the heathen thou hast scattered us.

[¶12] 12 Thou hast sold thy people, and not become rich, And thou hast not increased the price of them.

[¶13] 13 Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are round about us.

[¶14] 14 Thou hast made us a byword among the heathen, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

[¶15] 15 Daily is my reproach before me, And the shame of my face hath quite covered me,

[¶16] 16 Because of the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, Because of the face of the adversary and avenger.

[¶17] 17 All this is come upon us, and we have not forgotten thee, Nor dealt perfidiously in thy covenant;

[¶18] 18 Not turned back hath our heart, Nor declined have our steps from thy path.

[¶19] 19 Although thou hast crushed us in the place of dragons, And covered us with the shadow of death.

[¶20] 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, And have spread forth our hands to a God that is strange;

[¶21] 21 Shall not God search out this? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

[¶22] 22 Surely for thy sake we are killed daily; We are accounted as sheep [appointed] for slaughter.

[¶23] 23 Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake, do not forget us for ever.

[¶24] 24 Wherefore thy face dost thou hide? Wilt thou forget our misery and our affliction?

[¶25] 25 For humbled to the dust is our soul; Cleave to the earth doth our belly.

[¶26] 26 Arise for our help, And redeem us for the sake of thy loving-kindness.