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.
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, [with] Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people 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 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 [art] He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.
Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
5 By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,
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 do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.
For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.
7 For Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast 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 we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. (Selah)
In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
9 In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not 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 causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
11 Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.
Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.
12 Thou sellest Thy people — without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.
Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
14 Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.
15 All the day my confusion [is] 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 Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
17 All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in 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 We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.
And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
19 But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath 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 forth our hands to a strange god:
21 Doth not God search out this? For 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 we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Stir up — why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
24 Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
Why turnest thou face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
25 For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.
For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth 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 thy name’s sake.
