Psalms 44

1 For the leader. Of the Korahites. A maskil. O God, we have heard with our ears, all our ancestors have told us of the work that you wrought in their day, your wonders in days of old,

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.

2 uprooting and crushing the nations, then planting and settling them. For it wasn’t their own sword that won them the land,

Your hand dispersed the Gentiles, and you transplanted them. You afflicted a people, and you expelled them.

3 it was not their own arm that brought them the victory. Yours was the hand and the arm, yours was the face that shone on them with favour.

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.

4 It was you, my king and my God, that ordained the victories of Jacob.

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

5 Through you we can thrust back our foes, and by your name tread down our assailants:

With you, we will brandish a horn before our enemies; and in your name, we will spurn those rising up against us.

6 for not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword win me the victory.

For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me.

7 Our victory comes from you, and confusion to those who hate us.

For you have saved us from those who afflict us, and you have bewildered those who hate us.

8 In God we boast all the day long, and your name will we praise forever. (Selah)

In God, we will give praise all day long; and in your name, we will confess forever.

9 Yet you have spurned and disgraced us, in not going forth with our armies,

But now, you have rejected and bewildered us, and you will not go forth with our armies, O God.

10 and in making us flee from the foe, so that those who hated us plundered us.

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

11 You have let us be eaten like sheep, you have scattered us over the world,

You have given us over like sheep for food. You have scattered us among the Gentiles.

12 sold your people for a pittance, and getting no gain from their price.

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

13 You have made us the butt of our neighbours, the derision and scorn of all round us.

You have set us as a disgrace to our neighbors, a scoff and a derision to those who are around us.

14 O’er the world you have made us a byword, the nations at us shake their heads.

You have set us as a parable among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

15 My disgrace is forever before me, my face is covered with shame,

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

16 at the words of blasphemer and scoffer, at the sight of the foe and the vengeful.

before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer.

17 All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you nor falsely dealt with your covenant.

All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, and we have not acted unjustly in your covenant.

18 Our heart has not turned back, nor our steps declined from your way,

And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.

19 that you thus should have crushed us down, and covered us over with gloom, in the place where the jackals roam.

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

20 Had we forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a god that was strange,

If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god,

21 would God not have searched this out? For he knows the heart and its secrets.

will not God find this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

22 But in your cause it is we are killed all the day, and counted as sheep for the slaughter.

For, because of you, we are being killed all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.

23 Rouse yourself, why do you sleep Lord? Awake, cast us not off forever.

Rise up. Why do you fall asleep, O Lord? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end.

24 Why do you hide your face, forgetting our stress and our misery?

Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation?

25 For we have sunk down to the dust, our bodies cling to the ground.

For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth.

26 Arise, come to our help: for your love’s sake, ransom us.

Rise up, O Lord. Help us and redeem us, because of your name.