Psalms 44

1 For the chief musician. A psalm of the sons of Korah. A maschil. We have heard with our ears, God, our fathers have told us what work you did 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 thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old.

2 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted our people; you afflicted the peoples, but you spread our people out in the land.

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

3 For they did not obtain the land for their possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to 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 God, You are my King; command victory for Jacob.

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

5 Through you we will push down our adversaries; through your name we will tread them under, those who 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 will 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 adversaries, and have put to shame those who hate us.

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

8 In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to your name forever. (Selah)

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

9 But now you have thrown us off and brought us dishonor, and you do not go out 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 turn back from the adversary; and those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

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

11 You have made us like sheep to be slaughtered and have scattered us among the nations.

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

12 You sell your people for nothing; you have not increased your wealth by doing so.

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

13 You make us a rebuke to our neighbors, scoffed and mocked by those around us.

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

14 You make us an insult among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

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

15 All the day long my dishonor is 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 because of the voice of him who rebukes and insults, because of the enemy and the avenger.

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

17 All this has come on us; yet we have not forgotten you or dealt falsely with 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 has not turned back; our steps have not gone from your way.

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

19 Yet you have severely broken us in the place of jackals 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 spread 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 would not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

for he knows the secrets of the heart.

22 Indeed, for your sake we are being killed all day long; we are considered to be 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 do you sleep, Lord? Arise, do not throw us off permanently.

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

24 Why do you hide your face and forget our affliction and our oppression?

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

25 For we have melted away into the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

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

26 Rise up for our help and redeem us for the sake of your covenant faithfulness.

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