Psalms 44:7

44:7 For you deliver ¹  us from our enemies;

you humiliate ²  those who hate us.

Psalms 44:10

44:10 You made us retreat ³  from the enemy.

Those who hate us take whatever they want from us. ⁴ 

[44:7]  ¹ tn Or “have delivered,” if past successes are in view. Another option is to take the perfect as rhetorical, emphasizing that victory is certain (note the use of the imperfect in vv. 5-6).

[44:7]  ² tn Or “have humiliated,” if past successes are in view. Another option is to take the perfect as rhetorical, emphasizing that victory is certain (note the use of the imperfect in vv. 5-6).

[44:10]  ³ tn Heb “you caused us to turn backward.”

[44:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “plunder for themselves.” The prepositional phrase לָמוֹ (lamo, “for themselves”) here has the nuance “at their will” or “as they please” (see Ps 80:6).