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Psalm 44:19

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44:19Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs;46

you have covered us with darkness.47

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  1. 46 Heb “yet you have battered us in a place of jackals.”
  2. 47 The Hebrew term צַלְמָוֶת (tsalmavet) has traditionally been understood as a compound noun meaning “shadow of death” (צֵל+מָוֶת [mavet + tsel]; see 853 צַלְמָוֶת; cf. ). Other scholars prefer to vocalize the form צַלְמוּת (tsalmut) and understand it as an abstract noun (from the root צלם) meaning “darkness” (cf. , ). An examination of the word’s usage favors the latter derivation. It is frequently associated with darkness/night and contrasted with light/morning (see Job 3:5; 10:21–22; 12:22; 24:17; 28:3; 34:22; Ps 107:10, 14; Isa 9:1; Jer 13:16; Amos 5:8). In some cases the darkness described is associated with the realm of death (Job 10:21–22; 38:17), but this is a metaphorical application of the word and does not reflect its inherent meaning. In Ps 44:19 darkness symbolizes defeat and humiliation.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

yet you have broken us in the place of jackals

and covered us with the shadow of death.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals;

you covered us over with deep darkness.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But you have crushed us in a haunt of jackals

and have covered us with deepest darkness.

NLTNew Living Translation

Yet you have crushed us in the jackal’s desert home.

You have covered us with darkness and death.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But you have crushed us in a place of jackals,

and have covered us with deep shadow.

KJV 1900King James Version

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,

And covered us with the shadow of death.