Psalm 44:25
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New International Version (©2011)
We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

New Living Translation (©2007)
We collapse in the dust, lying face down in the dirt.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For our soul has sunk down into the dust; Our body cleaves to the earth.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For we have sunk down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

International Standard Version (©2012)
For we have collapsed in the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

NET Bible (©2006)
For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Because our soul is humbled upon the dust and our belly has cleaved to the Earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Our souls are bowing in the dust. Our bodies cling to the ground.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our body cleaves unto the earth.

American King James Version
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth.

American Standard Version
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For our soul is humbled down to the dust : our belly cleaveth to the earth.

Darby Bible Translation
For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

English Revised Version
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.

World English Bible
For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

44:17-26 In afflictions, we must not seek relief by any sinful compliance; but should continually meditate on the truth, purity, and knowledge of our heart-searching God. Hearts sins and secret sins are known to God, and must be reckoned for. He knows the secret of the heart, therefore judges of the words and actions. While our troubles do not drive us from our duty to God, we should not suffer them to drive us from our comfort in God. Let us take care that prosperity and ease do not render us careless and lukewarm. The church of God cannot be prevailed on by persecution to forget God; the believer's heart does not turn back from God. The Spirit of prophecy had reference to those who suffered unto death, for the testimony of Christ. Observe the pleas used, ver. 25,26. Not their own merit and righteousness, but the poor sinner's pleas. None that belong to Christ shall be cast off, but every one of them shall be saved, and that for ever. The mercy of God, purchased, promised, and constantly flowing forth, and offered to believers, does away every doubt arising from our sins; while we pray in faith, Redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 25. - For our soul is bowed down to the dust; i.e. brought very low, humbled, as it were, to the earth, so weakened that it has no strength in it. Our belly cleaveth unto the earth. The body participates in the soul's depression, and lies prostrate on the ground.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For our soul is bowed down to the dust,.... Which may signify great declension in spiritual things, much dejection of mind, and little exercise of grace, Psalm 119:25; or a very low estate in temporals; subjection to their enemies; they setting their feet upon their necks, and obliging them to lick the dust of them: and even it may signify nearness to death itself; see Joshua 10:24;

our belly cleaveth to the earth; as persons that lie prostrate, being conquered and suppliants.

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Redeem Us
…24Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression? 25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth. 26Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.

Luke 10:11 Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.'
Psalm 107:39 Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow;
Psalm 119:25 I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word.
Psalm 143:3 The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead.
Lamentations 3:20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.