Psalms 44

1 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.

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 thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old.

2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.

Thine hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and thou didst plant them: thou didst afflict the nations, and cast them out.

3 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 favour unto them.

For they inherited not the land by their [own] sword, and their [own] arm did not deliver them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou wert well pleased in them.

4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

Thou art indeed my King and my God, who commandest deliverances for Jacob.

5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

In thee will we push down our enemies, and in thy name will we bring to nought them that rise up against us.

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

For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.

7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.

For thou hast saved us from them that afflicted us, and hast put to shame them that hated us.

8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. (Selah)

In God will we make our boast all the day, and to thy name will we give thanks for ever. (Pause)

9 But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.

But now thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and thou wilt not go forth with our hosts.

10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

Thou hast turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.

11 You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the heathen.

Thou madest us as sheep for meat; and thou scatteredst us among the nations.

12 You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.

Thou hast sold thy people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.

13 You make us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.

14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Thou hast made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

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

16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.

17 All this has come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.

All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt unrighteously in thy covenant.

18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;

And our heart has not gone back; but thou hast turned aside our paths from thy way.

19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

For thou hast 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, or stretched out 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 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.

for he knows the secrets of the heart.

22 Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.

23 Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

Awake, wherefore sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and do not cast [us] off for ever.

24 Wherefore hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Wherefore turnest thou thy face away, [and] forgettest our poverty and our affliction?

25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaves unto the earth.

For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.

26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.

Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for thy name's sake.