Psalms 44
1 For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which you wrought in their days, in the days of old.
To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction. O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:
2 Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out.
Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.
3 For they inherited not the land by their [own] sword, and their [own] arm did not deliver them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you were well pleased in them.
For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them.
4 You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob.
Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.
5 In you will we push down our enemies, and in your name will we bring to nothing them that rise up against us.
Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.
For I will not put confidence in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7 For you have saved us from them that afflicted us, and have put to shame them that hated us.
For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.
8 In God will we make our boast all the day, and to your name will we give thanks for ever. (Pause)
In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy name for ever. (Selah)
9 But now you have cast off, and put us to shame; and you will not go forth with our hosts.
But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;
10 You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.
Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;
11 You made us as sheep for meat; and you scattered us amongst the nations.
Thou hast given us over like sheep [appointed] for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;
12 You have sold your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.
Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price;
13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;
14 You have made us a proverb amongst the Gentiles, a shaking of the head amongst the nations.
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
15 All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,
All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16 because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.
Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten you, neither have we dealt unrighteously in your covenant.
All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:
18 And our heart has not gone back; but you have turned aside our paths from your way.
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;
19 For you have laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.
Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?
If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,
21 for he knows the secrets of the heart.
Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 For, for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.
But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
23 Awake, therefore sleep you, O Lord? arise, and do not cast [us] off for ever.
Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.
24 Therefore turn you your face away, [and] forget our poverty and our affliction?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26 Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for your name's sake.
Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving-kindness' sake.
