Mazmur 44
1 Mazmur kaum Korah. Nyanyian pengajaran. Untuk pemimpin kor. Ya Allah, kami telah mendengar sendiri kisah yang diceritakan leluhur kami tentang karya hebat yang Kaulakukan di zaman dahulu.
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
2 Engkau sendiri mengusir bangsa-bangsa supaya umat-Mu menetap di negeri mereka. Bangsa-bangsa lain Engkau celakakan, tetapi umat-Mu Kaubiarkan berkembang.
How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
3 Tanah itu tidak mereka rebut dengan pedang; tidak dengan kekuatan sendiri mereka menang, tetapi dengan kuasa dan cahaya kehadiran-Mu, sebab Engkau berkenan kepada umat-Mu.
For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favor to them.
4 Engkaulah Rajaku dan Allahku, yang memberi kemenangan kepada umat-Mu.
You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 Dengan kuasa-Mu kami mengalahkan musuh kami, dan menaklukkan orang-orang yang menyerang kami.
Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 Sebab aku tidak mengandalkan panahku, pedangku pun tak akan menyelamatkan aku.
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7 Tapi Engkaulah yang menyelamatkan kami dari lawan, dan mengalahkan orang-orang yang membenci kami.
But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.
8 Maka kami akan selalu memegahkan Engkau, dan terus-menerus bersyukur kepada-Mu.
In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. (Selah)
9 Tapi sekarang Engkau meninggalkan kami dan membiarkan kami dikalahkan. Engkau tidak lagi maju bersama barisan kami.
But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.
10 Kaubiarkan kami melarikan diri dari musuh kami, dan mereka merampas harta kami.
You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 Kaubiarkan kami dibantai seperti domba, dan Kauceraiberaikan kami di antara bangsa-bangsa.
You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.
12 Kaujual umat-Mu dengan harga tak seberapa, dan tidak mendapat keuntungan apa-apa.
You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.
13 Kaujadikan kami ejekan tetangga-tetangga mereka mengolok-olok dan menertawakan kami.
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14 Kaujadikan kami bahan sindiran bangsa-bangsa; mereka menggelengkan kepala sambil menghina kami.
You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 Sepanjang hari aku dicela, menanggung malu dan kehilangan muka,
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
16 karena mendengar ejekan dan penghinaan dari mulut musuh dan pendendam.
For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 Semua itu telah menimpa kami walaupun kami tidak melupakan Engkau atau mengkhianati perjanjian-Mu dengan kami.
All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.
18 Hati kami tidak mengingkari Engkau; perintah-Mu tidak kami kesampingkan.
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;
19 Tetapi Kautinggalkan kami dalam kegelapan; kami tak berdaya di antara binatang buas.
Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 Andaikata kami tidak lagi menyembah Allah, melainkan berdoa kepada ilah lain,
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21 Allah pasti akan mengetahuinya, sebab Ia menyelami rahasia hati kami.
Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Demi Engkau kami terus terancam maut, dan diperlakukan seperti domba sembelihan.
Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Bangunlah, ya TUHAN! Mengapa Engkau tidur? Bangkitlah! Jangan menolak kami untuk selamanya.
Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24 Mengapa Engkau bersembunyi, dan melupakan sengsara serta kesusahan kami?
Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 Kami jatuh hancur di tanah, terbaring dalam debu karena kalah.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth.
26 Bangkitlah dan datanglah menolong kami, selamatkanlah kami karena kasih-Mu.
Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.
