Psalms 44 · Verse 12

Psalms 44:12

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Psalms 44:12, King James Version

Psalms 44:12 in other translations

BSBYou sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
WEBYou sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
ASVThou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased thy wealth by their price.
YLTThou sellest Thy people--without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.
DARBYThou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price;
BBEYou let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.
WebsterThou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

What does Psalms 44:12 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought - An allusion to the mode of disposing of slaves by their proprietors or sovereigns. Instead of seeking profit, thou hast made us a present to our enemies.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 44:9-16

The believer must have times of temptation, affliction, and discouragement; the church must have seasons of persecution. At such times the people of God will be ready to fear that he has cast them off, and that his name and truth will be dishonoured. But they should look above the instruments of their trouble, to God, well knowing that their worst enemies have no power against them, but what is permitted from above.

Read the full comment on Psalms 44:9-16 →

Psalms 44:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

תִּמְכֹּֽר\־tim.kor-you have soldH4376
עַמְּךָ֥'a.me.Khapeople yourH5971
בְלֹא\־ve.lo'-for notH3808
ה֑וֹןHonwealthH1952
וְלֹ֥א\־ve.Lo'-and notH3808
רִ֝בִּ֗יתָri.Bi.tayou have made greatH7235
בִּמְחִירֵיהֶֽם\׃bim.chi.rei.Hemby price<s> theirH4242

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 44:12

  • Jeremiah 15:13

    Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

  • Deuteronomy 32:30

    How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

  • Isaiah 52:3-4

    For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

  • Judges 2:14

    And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

  • Isaiah 50:1

    Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

  • Judges 3:8

    Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan–rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan–rishathaim eight years.

  • Revelation 18:13

    And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

  • Nehemiah 5:8-12

    And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
sellest.
De 32:30; Isa 50:1; 52:3,4; Jer 15:13
for nought. Heb. without riches. increase.
Ne 5:8-12; Re 18:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 44:11

    Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

  • Psalms 44:12

    Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

  • Psalms 44:13

    Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

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Psalms 44:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Has vendido tu pueblo de balde, y no pujaste en sus precios.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu nous as livrés comme des brebis destinées à être mangées, et tu nous as dispersés parmi les nations;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Du verkauftest dein Volk um ein Geringes und hast nicht hochgestellt ihren Preis.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et concupiscet rex decorem tuum, quoniam ipse est Dominus Deus tuus, et adorabunt eum.