Psalms 44:15
in Psalms 44All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me,
KJV
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
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This verse in Psalms 44
Commentary
3 notes on this verseMy confusion is continually before me,.... Meaning that which is the occasion of it; and the shame of my face hath covered me; not by reason of sin, which is often the cause of confusion and shame in God's people; see Jer 3:25; but on account of what follows.
This site's exposition
a reproach to our neighbors
on Psalms 44:13-16
The words pile up: a mockery, a byword among the nations, a reproach to our neighbors. Then it narrows to one face, shame has covered my face. Clarke reads the list as built from the nation's humiliation down to one man's shame, at the voice of the scorner.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
My confusion is continually before me. The poet makes himself the representative of his nation, and declares his own constant distress of soul. He is a man of ill blood who is unconcerned for the sorrows of the church of which he is a member, or the nation of which he is a citizen; the better the heart the greater its sympathy. And the shame of my face hath covered me.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַ֭יּוֹם | haiyom | the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| כְּלִמָּתִ֣י | kelimati | ignominy my | H3639 → | 30 times |
| נֶגְדִּ֑י | negdi | [is] before me | H5048 → | 151 times |
| וּבֹ֖שֶׁת | uvoshet | and [the] shame of | H1322 → | 30 times |
| פָּנַ֣י | panai | face my | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| כִּסָּֽתְנִי׃ | kisateni | it has covered me | H3680 → | 152 times |
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
הַ֭יּוֹםthe day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
כְּלִמָּתִ֣יignominy my
kelimatiH3639 →30 times
נֶגְדִּ֑י[is] before me
negdiH5048 →151 times
וּבֹ֖שֶׁתand [the] shame of
uvoshetH1322 →30 times
פָּנַ֣יface my
panaiH6440 →2123 times
כִּסָּֽתְנִי׃it has covered me
kisateniH3680 →152 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 71:13May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 20:11
But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting…
- Psalms 71:24
My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.
- Psalms 109:29
May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.
- Psalms 35:4
May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
- Jeremiah 20:11
Through
Psalms 69:7For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
it leads to
- Isaiah 50:6
I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
- Jeremiah 15:15
You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.
- Psalms 44:22
Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Isaiah 50:6
Through
Jeremiah 51:51“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
it leads to
- Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
- Lamentations 1:10
About Psalms
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 2; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).