Psalms 44
1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou did in their days, in the days of old.
To the Chief Musician. For the Sons of Korah. An Instructive Psalm. O God! with our own ears, have we heard, Our fathers, have recounted to us, —The work thou didst work, In their day, In the days of aforetime:
2 Thou drove out the nations with thy hand, but thou planted them. Thou afflicted the peoples, but thou spread them abroad.
Thou thyself, with thine own hand—Didst dispossess, nations, and didst plant them, Didst break peoples in pieces, and didst spread them out:
3 For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them, but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou were favorable to them.
For, not by their own sword, gat they possession of the land, Nor did, their own arm, win victory for them, —But thine own right hand, and thine own arm, and the light of thy face, Because thou hadst accepted them.
4 Thou are my King, O God. Command deliverance for Jacob.
Thou thyself, art my king, O God, Command thou the victories of Jacob.
5 Through thee we will push down our adversaries. Through thy name we will tread them under who rise up against us.
By thee, will we thrust at, our adversaries, In thy Name, will we tread down our assailants;
6 For I will not trust in my bow, nor shall my sword save me.
For, not in my bow, will I trust, Nor shall, my sword, give me victory;
7 But thou have saved us from our adversaries, and have put them to shame who hate us.
For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And, them who hated us, hast thou put to shame.
8 In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to thy name forever. (Selah)
In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name—unto times age-abiding, will we praise. (Selah)
9 But now thou have cast off, and brought us to dishonor, and go not forth with our armies.
But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;
10 Thou make us to turn back from the adversary. And those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will:
11 Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.
12 Thou sell thy people for nothing, and have not increased by their price.
Thou dost sell thy people for, no-value, And hast not made increase by their price.
13 Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
Thou dost make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us:
14 Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Thou dost make us, A by-word among the nations, —A shaking of the head among the peoples.
15 All the day long my dishonor is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
All the day, is my confusion before me, And, the shame of my face, hath covered me:
16 for the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, because of the enemy and the avenger.
At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger.
17 All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee, nor have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;
18 Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from thy way,
Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path;
19 that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,
21 will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart?
22 Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.
23 Awake, why do thou sleep, O Lord? Arise, cast not off forever.
Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!
24 Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground.
For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth.
26 Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving kindness' sake.
Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.
