Psalms 44

1 Unto the end. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. We have heard, O God, with our own ears. Our fathers have announced to us the work that you wrought in their days and in the days of antiquity.

“For the leader of the music. A psalm of the sons of Korah.” O God! we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us, What deeds thou didst in their days, In the days of old.

2 Your hand dispersed the Gentiles, and you transplanted them. You afflicted a people, and you expelled them.

With thine own hand didst thou drive out the nations, And plant our fathers; Thou didst destroy the nations, And cause our fathers to flourish.

3 For they did not take possession of the land by their sword, and their own arm did not save them. But your right hand and your arm, and the light of your countenance did so, because you were pleased with them.

For not by their own swords did they gain possession of the land, Nor did their own arms give them victory; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance; For thou didst favor them!

4 You yourself are my king and my God, who commands the salvation of Jacob.

Thou art my king, O God! O send deliverance to Jacob!

5 With you, we will brandish a horn before our enemies; and in your name, we will spurn those rising up against us.

Through thee we may cast down our enemies; Through thy name we may trample upon our adversaries!

6 For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me.

I trust not in my bow, Nor can my sword save me.

7 For you have saved us from those who afflict us, and you have bewildered those who hate us.

But it is thou only who savest us from our enemies, And puttest to shame those who hate us!

8 In God, we will give praise all day long; and in your name, we will confess forever.

In God will we glory continually; Yea, we will praise thy name for ever! (Pause)

9 But now, you have rejected and bewildered us, and you will not go forth with our armies, O God.

Yet now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame; Thou goest not forth with our armies.

10 You have turned our back to our enemies, and those who hated us have plundered for themselves.

Thou makest us turn back from the enemy, And they who hate us make our goods their prey.

11 You have given us over like sheep for food. You have scattered us among the Gentiles.

Thou makest us like sheep destined for food, And scatterest us among the nations.

12 You have sold your people without a price, and no great number was exchanged for them.

Thou sellest thy people for nought, And increasest not thy wealth by their price.

13 You have set us as a disgrace to our neighbors, a scoff and a derision to those who are around us.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those who are around us.

14 You have set us as a parable among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Thou makest us a byword among the nations, And causest the people to shake their heads at us.

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

My ignominy is continually before me, And shame covereth my face,

16 before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer.

On account of the voice of the scoffer and the reviler, And on account of the enemy and the avenger.

17 All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, and we have not acted unjustly in your covenant.

All this hath come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Nor have we been false to thy covenant.

18 And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.

Our hearts, have not wandered from thee, Nor have our feet gone out of thy path;

19 For you humbled us in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

Though thou hast crushed us in a land of jackals, And covered us with thick darkness.

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god,

If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched forth our hands to a strange God,

21 will not God find this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Surely God would search it out; For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

22 For, because of you, we are being killed all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.

But for thy sake we are killed all the day; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

23 Rise up. Why do you fall asleep, O Lord? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end.

Awake! why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise! cast us not off for ever!

24 Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation?

Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And forget our affliction and oppression?

25 For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth.

Our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaveth to the earth.

26 Rise up, O Lord. Help us and redeem us, because of your name.

Arise, O thou, our strength! And deliver us, for thy mercy's sake!