Psalm 44/Notes/Lexical.V. 23.414365

• The sense of הֹרַגְנוּ: While the psalmist has not literally been killed, the inclusion of himself in the first-person plural could be explained on the basis of corporate solidarity (see Exegetical Issue: The Speaker of Ps. 44:5, 7, and 16), wherein the experience of the community is shared by the individual. Thus, Israel's experience of death by means of military defeat (v. 10) or plundering (v. 11) is reflected in the experience of the psalmist as well.