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.

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 thou wroughtest 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.

Thine hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and thou didst plant them: thou didst afflict the nations, and cast them out.

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 inherited not the land by their [own] sword, and their [own] arm did not deliver them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou wert well pleased in them.

4 You yourself are my king and my God, who commands the salvation of Jacob.

Thou art indeed my King and my God, who commandest deliverances 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.

In thee will we push down our enemies, and in thy name will we bring to nought them that 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, and my sword shall not save me.

7 For you have saved us from those who afflict us, and you have bewildered those who hate us.

For thou hast saved us from them that afflicted us, and hast put to shame them that hated us.

8 In God, we will give praise all day long; and in your name, we will confess forever.

In God will we make our boast all the day, and to thy name will we give thanks for ever. (Pause)

9 But now, you have rejected and bewildered us, and you will not go forth with our armies, O God.

But now thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and thou wilt not go forth with our hosts.

10 You have turned our back to our enemies, and those who hated us have plundered for themselves.

Thou hast turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.

11 You have given us over like sheep for food. You have scattered us among the Gentiles.

Thou madest us as sheep for meat; and thou scatteredst us among the nations.

12 You have sold your people without a price, and no great number was exchanged for them.

Thou hast sold thy people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.

13 You have set us as a disgrace to our neighbors, a scoff and a derision to those who are around us.

Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.

14 You have set us as a parable among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Thou hast made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

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

All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion 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.

because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and 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 these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt unrighteously in thy covenant.

18 And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.

And our heart has not gone back; but thou hast turned aside our paths from thy way.

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

For thou hast laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

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, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?

21 will not God find this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

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.

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

23 Rise up. Why do you fall asleep, O Lord? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end.

Awake, wherefore sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and do not cast [us] off for ever.

24 Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation?

Wherefore turnest thou thy face away, [and] forgettest our poverty and our affliction?

25 For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth.

For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.

26 Rise up, O Lord. Help us and redeem us, because of your name.

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