Gods will vs mans free will
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There just might be an important object lesson to be learned from this Psalm by all who insist on finding ways for fallen man to share in God's glory. The Psalmist reflects on God's/Israelites' conquest of the Land. Guess who gets left out in the cold credit wise? And since the mighty, valiant, armed-to-the-teeth flesh and blood warriors get tossed under the bus (in a manner of speaking), then how much more should the unarmed, ill-equipped Israelites whom God rescued from Pharaoh deserve the same treatment?
Ps 44:1-8
44:1 For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.
1 We have heard with our ears, O God;our fathers have told us what you did in their days,in days long ago. 2 With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers;you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish. 3 It was not by their sword that they won the land,nor did their arm bring them victory;it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
4 You are my King and my God,who decrees victories for Jacob. 5 Through you we push back our enemies;through your name we trample our foes. 6 I do not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory; 7 but you give us victory over our enemies,you put our adversaries to shame. 8 In God we make our boast all day long,and we will praise your name forever.
NIV
Ps 44:1-8
44:1 For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.
1 We have heard with our ears, O God;our fathers have told us what you did in their days,in days long ago. 2 With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers;you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish. 3 It was not by their sword that they won the land,nor did their arm bring them victory;it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
4 You are my King and my God,who decrees victories for Jacob. 5 Through you we push back our enemies;through your name we trample our foes. 6 I do not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory; 7 but you give us victory over our enemies,you put our adversaries to shame. 8 In God we make our boast all day long,and we will praise your name forever.
NIV
If Christ's death is efficacious for all then each and every person in the world is saved. No one has anything to worry about on Judgment Day; for Christ's dying for all means he actually saves all. 
Romans 9 says that the wrestling Esau and Jacob in the womb had not yet done nothing either good or evil. Therefore, they were neither do-gooders nor sinners. They were innocent. However, they were both saints, i.e. set apart for God's use once born. Now God does not automatically degenerate an innocent child, one who has done no good or evil in the womb, into a baby who automatically does evil once the umbilical cord is cut. A born-innocent child eventually does go astray from what it were in the womb, telling lies, once it understands via its conscience that lying is wrong and yet chooses to do so anyway. But both in the womb and after its birth God intends a child to learn to walk with Him and serve Him as it matures. It is set apart by God for God's service.
So, Romans 9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; 11 For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,
And, Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb (M-ReKheM, not L-ReKheM) : they go astray from the belly (M-BeTeN, not L-BeTeN), speaking lies. (Note: the prepositional prefix is M- i.e. from; not L- i.e. at/for: it does not say "at the womb/belly (L-ReKhem/ L-BeTeN)", but "from/since the womb" (M-ReKhem/ M-BeTeN), disprove your view. We are not conceived or born sinners/ evil-doers/ wicked. We are born innocent saints. We become guilty sinners when we first sin.
So, Romans 9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; 11 For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,
And, Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb (M-ReKheM, not L-ReKheM) : they go astray from the belly (M-BeTeN, not L-BeTeN), speaking lies. (Note: the prepositional prefix is M- i.e. from; not L- i.e. at/for: it does not say "at the womb/belly (L-ReKhem/ L-BeTeN)", but "from/since the womb" (M-ReKhem/ M-BeTeN), disprove your view. We are not conceived or born sinners/ evil-doers/ wicked. We are born innocent saints. We become guilty sinners when we first sin.
