Psalms 44
1 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:
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 Thou thyself, with thine own hand—Didst dispossess, nations, and didst plant them, Didst break peoples in pieces, and didst spread them out:
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
3 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.
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 Thou thyself, art my king, O God, Command thou the victories of Jacob.
Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
5 By thee, will we thrust at, our adversaries, In thy Name, will we tread down our assailants;
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, not in my bow, will I trust, Nor shall, my sword, give me victory;
For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.
7 For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And, them who hated us, hast thou put to shame.
But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.
8 In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name—unto times age-abiding, will we praise. (Selah)
In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
9 But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt 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 Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will:
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
11 Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.
Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.
12 Thou dost sell thy people for, no-value, And hast not made increase by their price.
Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
13 Thou dost make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us:
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
14 Thou dost make us, A by-word among the nations, —A shaking of the head among the peoples.
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.
15 All the day, is my confusion before me, And, the shame of my face, hath covered me:
All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me,
16 At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger.
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
17 All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;
All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in they covenant.
18 Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path;
And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
19 That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.
For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.
20 If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:
21 Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart?
Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.
Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!
Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
24 Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?
Why turnest thou face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
25 For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth.
For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
26 Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.
Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name’s sake.
