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Psalm 44:25

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44:25For we lie in the dirt,

with our bellies pressed to the ground.59

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Footnotes

  1. 59 Heb “for our being/life sinks down to the dirt, our belly clings to the earth.” The suffixed form of נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “being, life”) is often equivalent to a pronoun in poetic texts.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For our soul is bowed down to the dust;

our belly clings to the ground.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

We are brought down to the dust;

our bodies cling to the ground.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For we have sunk down to the dust;

our bodies cling to the ground.

NLTNew Living Translation

We collapse in the dust,

lying face down in the dirt.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For our soul is bowed down to the dust.

Our body clings to the ground.

KJV 1900King James Version

For our soul is bowed down to the dust:

Our belly cleaveth unto the earth.