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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Psalms 44:24.
Psalm 44:23-26
Excerpted from: Psalm Genres (Part Four): LamentsThe gist is here: We have no idea what is going on. We do not understand, but we know God will deliver us sometime. It is a statement of raw faith despite the circumstances which point to continued pain and suffering. They do not see how it is going to end. They do not see how they are going to come out on top, but they know God is in heaven and He is watching them and watching the situation, and if they have to shout into the heavens to get His attention, they will. But they know that He is going to respond in time.
Even though it seemed like God was asleep, that He was not listening, they would plead for deliverance because they trust in God's mercy and God's perfect timing. They understood—David understood—that God was waiting for something, God was working something out. There was a time for deliverance and they had not gotten there yet. God does things perfectly in their time, as Ecclesiastes 3:11 says. So they have an attitude like Job here. Job says in Job 13:15, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him." That is ultimate faith. Whatever God decides to do to me, I will still trust Him.
They were rattled, the Israelites were, and still confused because they could make no sense of the situation but they would trust Him to intervene when the time was right—or not!—for whatever His greater purpose was. They would trust Him, whatever the case.
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