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.
“For the leader of the music. A psalm of the sons of Korah.” O God! we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us, What deeds thou didst in their days, 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.
With thine own hand didst thou drive out the nations, And plant our fathers; Thou didst destroy the nations, And cause our fathers to flourish.
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 not by their own swords did they gain possession of the land, Nor did their own arms give them victory; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance; For thou didst favor them!
4 You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
Thou art my king, O God! O send deliverance to Jacob!
5 Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
Through thee we may cast down our enemies; Through thy name we may trample upon our adversaries!
6 For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
I trust not in my bow, Nor can my sword save me.
7 For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
But it is thou only who savest us from our enemies, And puttest to shame those who hate us!
8 In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever.
In God will we glory continually; Yea, we will praise thy name for ever! (Pause)
9 But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
Yet now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame; Thou goest not forth with our armies.
10 You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
Thou makest us turn back from the enemy, And they who hate us make our goods their prey.
11 You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
Thou makest us like sheep destined for food, And scatterest us among the nations.
12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, And increasest not thy wealth by their price.
13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those who are around us.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, And causest the people to shake their heads at us.
15 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
My ignominy is continually before me, And shame covereth my face,
16 at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
On account of the voice of the scoffer and the reviler, And on account of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
All this hath come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Nor have we been false to thy covenant.
18 Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
Our hearts, have not wandered from thee, Nor have our feet gone out of thy path;
19 But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
Though thou hast crushed us in a land of jackals, And covered us with thick darkness.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched forth our hands to a strange God,
21 would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Surely God would search it out; 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.
But for thy sake we are killed all the day; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Awake! why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise! cast us not off for ever!
24 Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And forget our affliction and oppression?
25 For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
Our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaveth to the earth.
26 Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
Arise, O thou, our strength! And deliver us, for thy mercy's sake!
