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.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.

2 Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out.

How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them 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 they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favour unto them.

4 You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob.

You are my King, O God: command deliverances 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 you will we push down our enemies: through your 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 trust 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.

But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated 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 we boast all the day long, and praise your 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 you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.

10 You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.

You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

11 You made us as sheep for meat; and you scattered us amongst the nations.

You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the heathen.

12 You have sold your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.

You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.

13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.

You make us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

14 You have made us a proverb amongst the Gentiles, a shaking of the head amongst the nations.

You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

15 All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

16 because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.

For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and 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 has come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your 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 your way;

19 For you have laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, 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 have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

21 for he knows the secrets of the heart.

Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.

22 For, for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.

Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

23 Awake, therefore sleep you, O Lord? arise, and do not cast [us] off for ever.

Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

24 Therefore turn you your face away, [and] forget our poverty and our affliction?

Wherefore hide you your face, and forget 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 cleaves unto the earth.

26 Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for your name's sake.

Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.