Psalms 44
1 Unto the end. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. We have heard, O God, with our own ears. Our fathers have announced to us the work that you wrought in their days and in the days of antiquity.
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou did in their days, in the days of old.
2 Your hand dispersed the Gentiles, and you transplanted them. You afflicted a people, and you expelled them.
Thou drove out the nations with thy hand, but thou planted them. Thou afflicted the peoples, but thou spread them abroad.
3 For they did not take possession of the land by their sword, and their own arm did not save them. But your right hand and your arm, and the light of your countenance did so, because you were pleased with them.
For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them, but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou were favorable to them.
4 You yourself are my king and my God, who commands the salvation of Jacob.
Thou are my King, O God. Command deliverance for Jacob.
5 With you, we will brandish a horn before our enemies; and in your name, we will spurn those rising up against us.
Through thee we will push down our adversaries. Through thy name we will tread them under who rise up against us.
6 For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me.
For I will not trust in my bow, nor shall my sword save me.
7 For you have saved us from those who afflict us, and you have bewildered those who hate us.
But thou have saved us from our adversaries, and have put them to shame who hate us.
8 In God, we will give praise all day long; and in your name, we will confess forever.
In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to thy name forever. (Selah)
9 But now, you have rejected and bewildered us, and you will not go forth with our armies, O God.
But now thou have cast off, and brought us to dishonor, and go not forth with our armies.
10 You have turned our back to our enemies, and those who hated us have plundered for themselves.
Thou make us to turn back from the adversary. And those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
11 You have given us over like sheep for food. You have scattered us among the Gentiles.
Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
12 You have sold your people without a price, and no great number was exchanged for them.
Thou sell thy people for nothing, and have not increased by their price.
13 You have set us as a disgrace to our neighbors, a scoff and a derision to those who are around us.
Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
14 You have set us as a parable among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
15 All day long my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,
All the day long my dishonor is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
16 before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer.
for the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, because of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, and we have not acted unjustly in your covenant.
All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee, nor have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18 And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.
Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from thy way,
19 For you humbled us in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.
that thou have greatly broken 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 extended our hands to a foreign god,
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
21 will not God find this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 For, because of you, we are being killed all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.
Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Rise up. Why do you fall asleep, O Lord? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end.
Awake, why do thou sleep, O Lord? Arise, cast not off forever.
24 Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation?
Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground.
26 Rise up, O Lord. Help us and redeem us, because of your name.
Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving kindness' sake.
