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 you did in their days, in the times of old.

2 Your hand dispersed the Gentiles, and you transplanted them. You afflicted a people, and you expelled them.

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 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 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 favor to them.

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

You are my King, O God: command 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.

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 hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither 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 you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.

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

In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. (Selah)

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

But you have cast off, and put us to shame; 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.

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

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

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

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

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

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to 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.

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

15 All day long 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 before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer.

For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason 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 this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your 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, neither have our steps declined from your way;

19 For you humbled us 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 extended our hands to a foreign god,

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

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

Shall 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.

Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted 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 sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

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

Why hide you your 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 belly sticks to the earth.

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

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