Psalms 44
1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding. We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work, thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.
2 With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
3 For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.
4 You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
5 Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
6 For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.
7 For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.
8 In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever.
In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
9 But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
10 You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
11 You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.
12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.
15 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me,
16 at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
17 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in they covenant.
18 Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
19 But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:
21 would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
24 Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
Why turnest thou face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
25 For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
26 Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name’s sake.
