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 Leader; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us; a work Thou didst 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.
Thou with Thy hand didst drive out the nations, and didst plant them in; Thou didst break the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.
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 not by their own sword did they get the land in possession, neither did their own arm save them; but Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance, because Thou wast favourable unto them.
4 Thou [art] He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.
Thou art my King, O God; command the salvation of Jacob.
5 By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,
Through Thee do we push down our adversaries; through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 For, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.
For I trust not in my bow, neither can 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 our adversaries, 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 have we gloried all the day, and we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever. (Selah)
9 In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.
Yet Thou hast cast off, and brought us to confusion; and goest not forth with our hosts.
10 Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will.
11 Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.
Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten; and hast scattered us among the nations.
12 Thou sellest Thy people — without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.
Thou sellest Thy people for small gain, and hast not set their prices high.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14 Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
15 All the day my confusion [is] before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.
All the day is my confusion before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16 Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.
17 All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.
All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we been false to Thy covenant.
18 We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy path;
19 But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
21 Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Would not God search this out? 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.
Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Stir up — why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.
24 Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25 For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26 Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.
Arise for our help, and redeem us for Thy mercy's sake.
