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 Overseer. — By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work 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.
Thou, [with] Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.
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 sword Possessed they the land, And their arm gave not salvation to them, But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, And the light of Thy countenance, Because Thou hadst accepted them.
4 You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
Thou [art] He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.
5 Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,
6 For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
For, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.
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 those hating us Thou hast put to shame.
8 In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever.
In God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. (Selah)
9 But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.
10 You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
11 You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.
12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
Thou sellest Thy people — without wealth, And hast not become great 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 neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
15 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
All the day my confusion [is] 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.
Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
17 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.
18 Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.
19 But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
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 spread our hands to a strange God,
21 would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Doth not God search out this? 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.
Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
23 Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Stir up — why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
24 Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
25 For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.
26 Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.
