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.
Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding. We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work, thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.
2 You, [with] Your hand, have dispossessed nations. And You plant them. You afflict peoples, and send them away.
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people 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 got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.
4 You [are] He, my King, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.
Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
5 By You we push our adversaries, By Your Name we tread down our withstanders,
Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise 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: neither shall my sword save me.
7 For You have saved us from our adversaries, And You have put to shame those hating us.
But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.
8 In God we have boasted all the day, And we thank Your Name for all time. (Selah)
In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
9 In anger You have cast off and cause us to blush, And do not go forth with our hosts.
But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
10 You cause us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
11 You make us food like sheep, And You have scattered us among nations.
Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.
12 You sell Your people—without wealth, And have not become great by their price.
Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
14 You make us an allegory among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.
15 All the day my confusion [is] before me, And the shame of my face has covered me.
All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me,
16 Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
17 All this met us, and we did not forget You, Nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.
All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in they covenant.
18 We do not turn our heart backward, Nor turn aside our step from Your path.
And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
19 But You have struck us in a place of dragons, And cover us over with death-shade.
For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath 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 forth our hands to a strange god:
21 Does God not search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Surely, for Your sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Stir up—why do You sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not cast us off forever.
Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
24 Why do You hide Your face? You forget our afflictions and our oppression,
Why turnest thou face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
25 For our soul has bowed to the dust, Our belly has cleaved to the earth.
For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth 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 thy name’s sake.
