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.
To the Chief Musician. For the Sons of Korah. An Instructive Psalm. O God! with our own ears, have we heard, Our fathers, have recounted to us, —The work thou didst work, In their day, In the days of aforetime:
2 Your hand dispersed the Gentiles, and you transplanted them. You afflicted a people, and you expelled them.
Thou thyself, with thine own hand—Didst dispossess, nations, and didst plant them, Didst break peoples in pieces, and didst spread 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, not by their own sword, gat they possession of the land, Nor did, their own arm, win victory for them, —But thine own right hand, and thine own arm, and the light of thy face, Because thou hadst accepted them.
4 You yourself are my king and my God, who commands the salvation of Jacob.
Thou thyself, art my king, O God, Command thou the victories of Jacob.
5 With you, we will brandish a horn before our enemies; and in your name, we will spurn those rising up against us.
By thee, will we thrust at, our adversaries, In thy Name, will we tread down our assailants;
6 For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me.
For, not in my bow, will I trust, Nor shall, my sword, give me victory;
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 our adversaries, And, them who hated us, hast thou put to shame.
8 In God, we will give praise all day long; and in your name, we will confess forever.
In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name—unto times age-abiding, will we praise. (Selah)
9 But now, you have rejected and bewildered us, and you will not go forth with our armies, O God.
But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And 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 sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will:
11 You have given us over like sheep for food. You have scattered us among the Gentiles.
Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.
12 You have sold your people without a price, and no great number was exchanged for them.
Thou dost sell thy people for, no-value, And hast not made increase 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 dost make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them 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 dost make us, A by-word 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, is my confusion before me, And, the shame of my face, hath covered me:
16 before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer.
At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe 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, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;
18 And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.
Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path;
19 For you humbled us in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.
That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god,
If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,
21 will not God find this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth 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.
Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted 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 thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!
24 Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation?
Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?
25 For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth.
For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth.
26 Rise up, O Lord. Help us and redeem us, because of your name.
Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.
