You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
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You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.
Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.
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"You have turned us away backward in presence of our enemies" [Psalm 44:10], so that they are, as it were, before; we, behind; they are counted as conquerors, we as conquered. "And they which hate us spoiled for themselves." What did they "spoil" but ourselves?
Matthew Henry · Verses 9–16
The believer must have times of temptation, affliction, and discouragement; the church must have seasons of persecution. At such times the people of God will be ready to fear that he has cast them off, and that his name and truth will be dishonoured. But they should look above the instruments of their trouble, to God, well knowing that their worst enemies have no power against them, but what is permitted from above.
Spurgeon · Verse 10
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy. The humiliating consciousness that the Lord has left them soon makes men cowards. Flight closes the fight of those who have not the Lord in the van. And they which hate us spoil for themselves. After defeat and retreat, comes spoliation. The poor, vanquished nation paid a terrible penalty for being overcome; plunder and murder desolated the conquered land, and the invaders loaded themselves with every precious thing which they could carry away. In spiritual experience we know what it is to be despoiled by our enemies; doubts and fears rob us of our comforts, and terrible forebodings spoil us of our hopes; and all because the Lord, for wise purposes, sees fit to leave us to ourselves. Alas! for the deserted soul; no calamity can equal the sorrow of being left of God, though it be but for a small moment.
Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.
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