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:
“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.
2 Thou thyself, with thine own hand—Didst dispossess, nations, and didst plant them, Didst break peoples in pieces, and didst spread them out:
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.
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 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!
4 Thou thyself, art my king, O God, Command thou the victories of Jacob.
Thou art my king, O God! O send deliverance to Jacob!
5 By thee, will we thrust at, our adversaries, In thy Name, will we tread down our assailants;
Through thee we may cast down our enemies; Through thy name we may trample upon our adversaries!
6 For, not in my bow, will I trust, Nor shall, my sword, give me victory;
I trust not in my bow, Nor can my sword save me.
7 For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And, them who hated us, hast thou put to shame.
But it is thou only who savest us from our enemies, And puttest to shame those who hate us!
8 In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name—unto times age-abiding, will we praise. (Selah)
In God will we glory continually; Yea, we will praise thy name for ever! (Pause)
9 But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;
Yet now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame; Thou goest not forth with our armies.
10 Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will:
Thou makest us turn back from the enemy, And they who hate us make our goods their prey.
11 Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.
Thou makest us like sheep destined for food, And scatterest us among the nations.
12 Thou dost sell thy people for, no-value, And hast not made increase by their price.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, And increasest not thy wealth by their price.
13 Thou dost make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us:
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those who are around us.
14 Thou dost make us, A by-word among the nations, —A shaking of the head among the peoples.
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, And causest the people to shake their heads at us.
15 All the day, is my confusion before me, And, the shame of my face, hath covered me:
My ignominy is continually before me, And shame covereth my face,
16 At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger.
On account of the voice of the scoffer and the reviler, And on account of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;
All this hath come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Nor have we been false to thy covenant.
18 Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path;
Our hearts, have not wandered from thee, Nor have our feet gone out of thy path;
19 That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.
Though thou hast crushed us in a land of jackals, And covered us with thick darkness.
20 If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,
If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched forth our hands to a strange God,
21 Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart?
Surely God would search it out; 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.
But for thy sake we are killed all the day; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!
Awake! why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise! cast us not off for ever!
24 Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And forget our affliction and oppression?
25 For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth.
Our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaveth to the earth.
26 Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.
Arise, O thou, our strength! And deliver us, for thy mercy's sake!
