Psalms 44:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:25 : 25 <DALETH> My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
  • Lam 4:5 : 5 Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.
  • Ps 66:11-12 : 11 You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs. 12 You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

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  • Ps 44:23-24
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    23 Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

    24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • 26 Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.

  • 25 <DALETH> My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.

  • 7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • Ps 44:17-20
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    17 All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

    18 Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;

    19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

    20 If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

  • Lam 5:4-6
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    4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

    5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

    6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

  • 15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • 45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

  • Ps 102:4-5
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    4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • 9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

    4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.

  • 11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • 17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

  • 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • 7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

  • 11 Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

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    5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

  • 3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • 20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

  • 23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

  • 24 My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

  • 5 Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.

  • 20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • 17 As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

  • 16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • 25 Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

  • 20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

  • 20 My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

  • 20 Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

  • 8 Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.

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  • 15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

  • 14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

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    36 Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

    37 And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

  • Lam 5:8-9
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    8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

    9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

  • 8 They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

  • 16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.