Psalm 44:5
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New International Version (©2011)
Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Only by your power can we push back our enemies; only in your name can we trample our foes.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Through You we will push back our adversaries; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Through You we drive back our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Through you we will knock down our oppressors; through your name we will tread down those who rise up against us.

NET Bible (©2006)
By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
By you we shall wound our enemies, and because of your Name we shall tread upon those who hate us.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
With you we can walk over our enemies. With your name we can trample those who attack us.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

American King James Version
Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

American Standard Version
Through thee will we push down our adversaries: Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn : and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.

Darby Bible Translation
Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

English Revised Version
Through thee will we push down our adversaries: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Webster's Bible Translation
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name we will tread them under that rise up against us.

World English Bible
Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.

Young's Literal Translation
By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

44:1-8 Former experiences of God's power and goodness are strong supports to faith, and powerful pleas in prayer under present calamities. The many victories Israel obtained, were not by their own strength or merit, but by God's favour and free grace. The less praise this allows us, the more comfort it affords, that we may see all as coming from the favour of God. He fought for Israel, else they had fought in vain. This is applicable to the planting of the Christian church in the world, which was not by any human policy or power. Christ, by his Spirit, went forth conquering and to conquer; and he that planted a church for himself in the world, will support it by the same power and goodness. They trusted and triumphed in and through him. Let him that glories, glory in the Lord. But if they have the comfort of his name, let them give unto him the glory due unto it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - Through thee will we push down our enemies. Do as we ask - command our deliverance - and then we shall assuredly "push down," i.e. overthrow and prostrate, our enemies. Thy help will be found as effectual in the future as in the past. Through thy Name will we tread them under that rise up against us. Having pushed our foes to the ground (comp. Deuteronomy 33:17), we shall then be able to "tread them under." The imagery is drawn from the practice of buffaloes and wild bulls.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Through thee will we push down our enemies,.... The Chaldee paraphrase renders it, "through the Word": the essential Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the church's King and God, and has wrought out complete deliverance and salvation for his people; and he is the horn of salvation, by which, though weak in themselves, they push down their enemies, which are many and mighty, and they are more than conquerors over them: the metaphor is taken from creatures pushing with their horns those that oppose them, and in defence of themselves; and there seems to be an allusion to Deuteronomy 33:17;

through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us; in the name of the Lord the saints set up their banners, and in his name they come forth and fight with their spiritual enemies, that rise up against them, as sin, Satan, and wicked men; and in the name, and through the power of the Lord, they tread them down as mire in the streets; and before long Satan will be wholly bruised under them; and the antichristian party shall be trodden down by them, and be as ashes under the soles of their feet; see Romans 16:20.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. The figure drawn from the habits of the ox.

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Redeem Us
…4You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. 5Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us. 6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. …

Deuteronomy 33:17 In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh."
Judges 5:21 The river Kishon swept them away, the age-old river, the river Kishon. March on, my soul; be strong!
2 Samuel 22:40 You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me.
2 Samuel 22:49 who sets me free from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from a violent man you rescued me.
Psalm 18:37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed.
Psalm 60:12 With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.
Psalm 108:13 With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.
Daniel 8:4 I watched the ram as it charged toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against it, and none could rescue from its power. It did as it pleased and became great.
Micah 5:8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which mauls and mangles as it goes, and no one can rescue.
Zechariah 10:5 Together they will be like warriors in battle trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.