Though you have severely broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
All Commentaries on Psalms 44:19 Go To Psalms 44
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Affliction. Hebrew, or "dragons "(St. Jerome; Menochius) alluding to the deserts, to which the Jews retired, when the Assyrians invaded them. The text may be more applicable to the first Christians, who might truly say, that they had not transgressed. (Houbigant) -- To the martyrs, death was but like a shadow. (St. Gregory) (Mark iv. 17.)
Here it denotes great darkness and misery. (Menochius)
