Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves." — Psalms 44:10 (ASV)
You make us turn back from the enemy—instead of giving us the victory. That is, we are defeated.
And those who hate us plunder for themselves—they plunder us; they take our property as spoil and carry it away. That this was done at the time referred to in the introduction as the time of the composition of the psalm, is apparent from the narrative in the Book of Chronicles (2 Chronicles 36:7), Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. (Compare to 2 Kings 23:33; 2 Kings 24:13–16; 2 Kings 25:13–17).