< Psalms 44 >
1 “For the leader of the music. A psalm of the sons of Korah.” O God! we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us, What deeds thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
to/for to conduct to/for son: descendant/people Korah Maskil God in/on/with ear our to hear: hear father our to recount to/for us work to work in/on/with day their in/on/with day front: old
2 With thine own hand didst thou drive out the nations, And plant our fathers; Thou didst destroy the nations, And cause our fathers to flourish.
you(m. s.) hand your nation to possess: take and to plant them be evil people and to send: let go them
3 For not by their own swords did they gain possession of the land, Nor did their own arms give them victory; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance; For thou didst favor them!
for not in/on/with sword their to possess: take land: country/planet and arm their not to save to/for them for right your and arm your and light face your for to accept them
4 Thou art my king, O God! O send deliverance to Jacob!
you(m. s.) he/she/it king my God to command salvation Jacob
5 Through thee we may cast down our enemies; Through thy name we may trample upon our adversaries!
in/on/with you enemy our to gore in/on/with name your to trample to arise: rise us
6 I trust not in my bow, Nor can my sword save me.
for not in/on/with bow my to trust and sword my not to save me
7 But it is thou only who savest us from our enemies, And puttest to shame those who hate us!
for to save us from enemy our and to hate us be ashamed
8 In God will we glory continually; Yea, we will praise thy name for ever! (Pause)
in/on/with God to boast: boast all [the] day: always and name your to/for forever: enduring to give thanks (Selah)
9 Yet now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame; Thou goest not forth with our armies.
also to reject and be humiliated us and not to come out: come in/on/with army our
10 Thou makest us turn back from the enemy, And they who hate us make our goods their prey.
to return: return us back from enemy and to hate us to plunder to/for them
11 Thou makest us like sheep destined for food, And scatterest us among the nations.
to give: make us like/as flock food and in/on/with nation to scatter us
12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, And increasest not thy wealth by their price.
to sell people your in/on/with not substance and not to multiply in/on/with price their
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those who are around us.
to set: make us reproach to/for neighboring our derision and derision to/for around us
14 Thou makest us a byword among the nations, And causest the people to shake their heads at us.
to set: make us proverb in/on/with nation shaking head not people
15 My ignominy is continually before me, And shame covereth my face,
all [the] day shame my before me and shame face my to cover me
16 On account of the voice of the scoffer and the reviler, And on account of the enemy and the avenger.
from voice: sound to taunt and to blaspheme from face enemy and to avenge
17 All this hath come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Nor have we been false to thy covenant.
all this to come (in): come us and not to forget you and not to deal in/on/with covenant your
18 Our hearts, have not wandered from thee, Nor have our feet gone out of thy path;
not to turn back heart our and to stretch step our from way your
19 Though thou hast crushed us in a land of jackals, And covered us with thick darkness.
for to crush us in/on/with place jackal and to cover upon us in/on/with shadow
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched forth our hands to a strange God,
if to forget name God our and to spread palm our to/for god be a stranger
21 Surely God would search it out; For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
not God to search this for he/she/it to know secret heart
22 But for thy sake we are killed all the day; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
for upon you to kill all [the] day to devise: count like/as flock slaughtered
23 Awake! why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise! cast us not off for ever!
to rouse [emph?] to/for what? to sleep Lord to awake [emph?] not to reject to/for perpetuity
24 Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And forget our affliction and oppression?
to/for what? face your to hide to forget affliction our and oppression our
25 Our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaveth to the earth.
for to sink to/for dust soul our to cleave to/for land: soil belly: abdomen our
26 Arise, O thou, our strength! And deliver us, for thy mercy's sake!
to arise: rise [emph?] help to/for us and to ransom us because kindness your