Psalm 44:19 But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.

English Standard Version
yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

New American Standard Bible
Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals And covered us with the shadow of death.

King James Bible
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackals and have covered us with deepest darkness.

International Standard Version
Nevertheless, you crushed us in the lair of jackals, and covered us in deep darkness.

American Standard Version
That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction : and the shadow of death hath covered us.

Darby Bible Translation
Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Young's Literal Translation
But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

Cross References

Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Psalm 23:4
Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.

Psalm 51:8
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Psalm 94:5
They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.

Isaiah 13:22
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Isaiah 34:13
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. sore broken—crushed.

place of dragons—desolate, barren, rocky wilderness (Ps 63:10; Isa 13:22),

shadow of death—(Compare Ps 23:4).