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:
To the Overseer. — By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work 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:
Thou, [with] Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.
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 sword Possessed they the land, And their arm gave not salvation to them, But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, And the light of Thy countenance, Because Thou hadst accepted them.
4 Thou thyself, art my king, O God, Command thou the victories of Jacob.
Thou [art] He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.
5 By thee, will we thrust at, our adversaries, In thy Name, will we tread down our assailants;
By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,
6 For, not in my bow, will I trust, Nor shall, my sword, give me victory;
For, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.
7 For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And, them who hated us, hast thou put to shame.
For Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast put to shame.
8 In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name—unto times age-abiding, will we praise. (Selah)
In God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. (Selah)
9 But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;
In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.
10 Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will:
Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
11 Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.
Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.
12 Thou dost sell thy people for, no-value, And hast not made increase by their price.
Thou sellest Thy people — without wealth, And hast not become great 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 neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
14 Thou dost make us, A by-word among the nations, —A shaking of the head among the peoples.
Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
15 All the day, is my confusion before me, And, the shame of my face, hath covered me:
All the day my confusion [is] before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.
16 At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger.
Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
17 All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;
All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.
18 Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path;
We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.
19 That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.
But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
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 spread our hands to a strange God,
21 Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart?
Doth not God search out this? 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.
Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
23 Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!
Stir up — why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
24 Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?
Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
25 For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth.
For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.
26 Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.
Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.
