Psalms 44

1 To the choirmaster of [the] sons of Korah a poem. O God - with ears our we have heard ancestors our they have recounted to us [the] deed[s] [which] you did in days their in days of antiquity.

For the chief musician. A psalm of the sons of Korah. A maschil. We have heard with our ears, God, our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

2 You - hand your nations you dispossessed and you planted them you did harm to peoples and you set free them.

You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted our people; you afflicted the peoples, but you spread our people out in the land.

3 For not by sword their they took possession of [the] land and arm their not it saved them for right [hand] your and arm your and [the] light of face your for you took pleasure in them.

For they did not obtain the land for their possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

4 You he [are] king my O God ordain [the] victories of Jacob.

God, You are my King; command victory for Jacob.

5 By you opponents our we gore in name your we tread down [those who] rise up against us.

Through you we will push down our adversaries; through your name we will tread them under, those who rise up against us.

6 For not in bow my I trust and sword my not it saves me.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither will my sword save me.

7 For you have saved us from foes our and [those who] hate us you have put to shame.

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have put to shame those who hate us.

8 In God we have boasted all the day and name your - for ever we will praise (Selah)

In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to your name forever. (Selah)

9 Also you have rejected and you have humiliated us and not you have gone out with armies our.

But now you have thrown us off and brought us dishonor, and you do not go out with our armies.

10 You have made turn back us backwards from [the] opponent and [those who] hate us they have plundered for themselves.

You make us turn back from the adversary; and those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

11 You have made us like sheep of food and among the nations you have scattered us.

You have made us like sheep to be slaughtered and have scattered us among the nations.

12 You have sold people your for not wealth and not you have made great by price their.

You sell your people for nothing; you have not increased your wealth by doing so.

13 You have made us a reproach to neighbors our mockery and derision to [those] around us.

You make us a rebuke to our neighbors, scoffed and mocked by those around us.

14 You have made us a byword among the nations a shaking of head not peoples.

You make us an insult among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

15 All the day ignominy my [is] before me and [the] shame of face my it has covered me.

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

16 From [the] sound of [one who] taunts and [one who] reviles because of an enemy and an avenger.

because of the voice of him who rebukes and insults, because of the enemy and the avenger.

17 All this it has come to us and not we had forgotten you and not we had dealt falsely with covenant your.

All this has come on us; yet we have not forgotten you or dealt falsely with your covenant.

18 Not it had turned back backwards heart our and it had turned aside steps our from path your.

Our heart has not turned back; our steps have not gone from your way.

19 For you have crushed us in a place of jackals and you have covered over us with deep darkness.

Yet you have severely broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

20 If we had forgotten [the] name of God our and we had spread out hands our to a god strange.

If we have forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a strange god,

21 ¿ Not God will he search out this for he [is] knowing [the] secrets of [the] heart.

would not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

22 For on you we have been killed all the day we have been regarded like sheep of slaughter.

Indeed, for your sake we are being killed all day long; we are considered to be sheep for the slaughter.

23 Awake! - why? do you sleep - O Lord awake! may not you reject [us] to perpetuity.

Awake, why do you sleep, Lord? Arise, do not throw us off permanently.

24 Why? face your do you hide do you forget? affliction our and oppression our.

Why do you hide your face and forget our affliction and our oppression?

25 For it has sunk down to the dust self our it has clung to the earth belly our.

For we have melted away into the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

26 Arise! a help of us and redeem us for [the] sake of covenant loyalty your.

Rise up for our help and redeem us for the sake of your covenant faithfulness.