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 you wrought 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.

Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did 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 your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you were well pleased in them.

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

You are indeed my King and my God, who 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.

In you will we push down our enemies, and in your name will we bring to nothing 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 you have saved us from them that afflicted us, and have 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 your 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 you have cast off, and put us to shame; and you will not go forth with our hosts.

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

You have 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.

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

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

You have sold your 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.

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, 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.

You have 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 you, neither have we dealt unrighteously in your 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 you have turned aside our paths from your way.

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

For you have 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 your 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, therefore sleep you, 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?

Therefore turn you your face away, [and] forget 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 your name's sake.