Psalms 44

1 TO THE OVERSEER. AN INSTRUCTION OF THE SONS OF KORAH. O God, we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work You worked in their days, In the days of old.

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 You, [with] Your hand, have dispossessed nations. And You plant them. You afflict peoples, and send them away.

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 possess the land by their sword, And their arm did not give salvation to them, But Your right hand, and Your arm, And the light of Your countenance, Because You had accepted 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 [are] He, my King, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.

You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob.

5 By You we push our adversaries, By Your Name we tread down our withstanders,

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 do not trust in my bow, And my sword does 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 our adversaries, And You have put to shame those hating us.

For you have saved us from them that afflicted us, and have put to shame them that hated us.

8 In God we have boasted all the day, And we thank Your Name for all time. (Selah)

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

9 In anger You have cast off and cause us to blush, And do not go forth with our hosts.

But now you have cast off, and put us to shame; and you will not go forth with our hosts.

10 You cause us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.

You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.

11 You make us food like sheep, And You have scattered us among nations.

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

12 You sell Your people—without wealth, And have not become great by their price.

You have sold your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.

13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.

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

14 You make us an allegory among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.

You have made us a proverb amongst the Gentiles, a shaking of the head amongst the nations.

15 All the day my confusion [is] before me, And the shame of my face has covered me.

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

16 Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.

because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.

17 All this met us, and we did not forget You, Nor have we dealt falsely 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 We do not turn our heart backward, Nor turn aside our step from Your path.

And our heart has not gone back; but you have turned aside our paths from your way.

19 But You have struck us in a place of dragons, And cover us over with death-shade.

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 spread our hands to a strange 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 Does God not search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

for he knows the secrets of the heart.

22 Surely, for Your sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

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

23 Stir up—why do You sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not cast us off forever.

Awake, therefore sleep you, O Lord? arise, and do not cast [us] off for ever.

24 Why do You hide Your face? You forget our afflictions and our oppression,

Therefore turn you your face away, [and] forget our poverty and our affliction?

25 For our soul has bowed to the dust, Our belly has cleaved to the earth.

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

26 Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for your kindness’ sake.

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