Psalms 44

1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding. We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work, thou hast wrought in their days, and 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 you wrought in their days, in the days of old.

2 Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.

Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out.

3 For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.

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

4 Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.

You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob.

5 Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.

In you will we push down our enemies, and in your name will we bring to nothing 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 thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.

For you have saved us from them that afflicted us, and have put to shame them that hated us.

8 In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.

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

9 But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.

But now you have cast off, and put us to shame; and you will not go forth with our hosts.

10 Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.

You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.

11 Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.

You made us as sheep for meat; and you scattered us amongst the nations.

12 Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.

You have sold your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.

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

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

14 Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.

You have made us a proverb amongst the Gentiles, a shaking of the head amongst the nations.

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

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

16 At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.

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

17 All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in they covenant.

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

18 And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.

And our heart has not gone back; but you have turned aside our paths from your way.

19 For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.

For you have 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, and if we have spread forth 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 out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

for he knows the secrets of the heart.

22 Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

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

23 Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.

Awake, therefore sleep you, O Lord? arise, and do not cast [us] off for ever.

24 Why turnest thou face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?

Therefore turn you your face away, [and] forget our poverty and our affliction?

25 For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.

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

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

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