Outlines in Psalms

This outline is a companion to a previous outline:   Our Heart Is Not Turned Back - Psalm 44:9-26

  I.  The Record of Past History (vs. 1-3)
       II.  The Response of Confident Faith (vs. 4-8)
            III.  The Reality of Present Tribulation (vs. 9-16)
      IV.  The Refusal to Forsake the Lord (vs. 17-22)
 V.  The Request of a Troubled Soul (vs. 23-26)

  I.  The Record of Past History

      Psalm 44:1 – “To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.  We have heard with our ears, O God,
      our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.”

            Psalm 44:2 – “How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst
            afflict the people, and cast them out.”

                  Psalm 44:3a – “For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm
                  save them.”

                        Psalm 44:3b – “But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou
                        hadst a favour unto them.” 

 II.  The Response of Confident Faith

      Psalm 44:4 – “Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.”

            Psalm 44:5 – “Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under
            that rise up against us.”

                  Psalm 44:6 – “For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

            Psalm 44:7 – “But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.”

      Psalm 44:8 – “In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.”

 Selah.

III.  The Reality of Present Tribulation

      Psalm 44:9-10 – “But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.  Thou
      makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.”

      Psalm 44:11-12 – “Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the
      heathen.  Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.”

      Psalm 44:13-14 – “Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are
      round about us.  Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.”

      Psalm 44:15-16 – “My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, for the
      voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.”

IV.  The Refusal to Forsake the Lord

      Psalm 44:17a – “All this is come upon us.”

            Psalm 44:17b – “Yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.”

            Psalm 44:18 – “Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way.”

      Psalm 44:19 – “Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of
      death.”

      Psalm 44:20 – “If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god . . .”

            Psalm 44:21 – “. . . Shall not God search this out?  For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.”

      Psalm 44:22 – “Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”

V.  The Request of a Troubled Soul

      Psalm 44:23 – “Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?  Arise, cast us not off for ever.”

            Psalm 44:24 – “Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?”

            Psalm 44:25 – “For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.”

      Psalm 44:26 – “Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.”
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