Psalms 44
1 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.
For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which you wrought in their days, in the days of old.
2 Thou, [with] Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.
Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out.
3 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.
For they inherited not the land by their [own] sword, and their [own] arm did not deliver them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you were well pleased in them.
4 Thou [art] He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.
You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob.
5 By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,
In you will we push down our enemies, and in your name will we bring to nothing them that rise up against us.
6 For, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.
For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.
7 For Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast put to shame.
For you have saved us from them that afflicted us, and have put to shame them that hated us.
8 In God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. (Selah)
In God will we make our boast all the day, and to your name will we give thanks for ever. (Pause)
9 In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.
But now you have cast off, and put us to shame; and you will not go forth with our hosts.
10 Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.
11 Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.
You made us as sheep for meat; and you scattered us amongst the nations.
12 Thou sellest Thy people — without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.
You have sold your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
You have made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.
14 Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
You have made us a proverb amongst the Gentiles, a shaking of the head amongst the nations.
15 All the day my confusion [is] before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.
All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,
16 Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.
All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten you, neither have we dealt unrighteously in your covenant.
18 We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.
And our heart has not gone back; but you have turned aside our paths from your way.
19 But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
For you have laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?
21 Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
for he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
For, for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.
23 Stir up — why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
Awake, therefore sleep you, O Lord? arise, and do not cast [us] off for ever.
24 Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
Therefore turn you your face away, [and] forget our poverty and our affliction?
25 For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.
For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.
26 Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.
Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for your name's sake.
