“"For our soul is bowed down to the dust" (ver. 25). Where is it bowed down? "To the dust:" i.e. dust persecutes us. They persecute us, of whom Thou hast said, "The ungodly are not so; but are like the dust, which the wind driveth away from the face of the earth." "Our belly hath cleaved to the earth." He seems to me t…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — ON THE PSALMS, Psalm 44
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25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
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23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
— Psalms 44:25 —
26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.