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.
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 With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
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 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 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 You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
Thou thyself, art my king, O God, Command thou the victories of Jacob.
5 Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
By thee, will we thrust at, our adversaries, In thy Name, will we tread down our assailants;
6 For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
For, not in my bow, will I trust, Nor shall, my sword, give me victory;
7 For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And, them who hated us, hast thou put to shame.
8 In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever.
In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name—unto times age-abiding, will we praise. (Selah)
9 But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;
10 You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will:
11 You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You 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 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
Thou dost sell thy people for, no-value, And hast not made increase by their price.
13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
Thou dost make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us:
14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Thou dost make us, A by-word among the nations, —A shaking of the head among the peoples.
15 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
All the day, is my confusion before me, And, the shame 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 who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and 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 had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;
18 Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path;
19 But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.
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, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,
21 would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, 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.
Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.
23 Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!
24 Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?
25 For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
For our soul, sinketh 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 to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.
