Psalms 44
1 For the leader. Of the Korahites. A maskil. O God, we have heard with our ears, all our ancestors have told us of the work that you wrought in their day, your wonders in days of old,
To him that excelleth. A Psalme to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. We haue heard with our eares, O God: our fathers haue tolde vs the workes, that thou hast done in their dayes, in the olde time:
2 uprooting and crushing the nations, then planting and settling them. For it wasn’t their own sword that won them the land,
Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thine hand, and planted them: how thou hast destroyed the people, and caused them to grow.
3 it was not their own arm that brought them the victory. Yours was the hand and the arm, yours was the face that shone on them with favour.
For they inherited not the lande by their owne sworde, neither did their owne arme saue them: but thy right hand, and thine arme and the light of thy countenance, because thou didest fauour them.
4 It was you, my king and my God, that ordained the victories of Jacob.
Thou art my King, O God: send helpe vnto Iaakob.
5 Through you we can thrust back our foes, and by your name tread down our assailants:
Through thee haue we thrust backe our aduersaries: by thy Name haue we troden downe them that rose vp against vs.
6 for not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword win me the victory.
For I do not trust in my bowe, neither can my sworde saue me.
7 Our victory comes from you, and confusion to those who hate us.
But thou hast saued vs from our aduersaries, and hast put them to confusion that hate vs.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and your name will we praise forever. (Selah)
Therefore will wee praise God continually, and will confesse thy Name for euer. (Selah)
9 Yet you have spurned and disgraced us, in not going forth with our armies,
But now thou art farre off, and puttest vs to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.
10 and in making us flee from the foe, so that those who hated us plundered us.
Thou makest vs to turne backe from the aduersary, and they, which hate vs, spoile for theselues.
11 You have let us be eaten like sheep, you have scattered us over the world,
Thou giuest vs as sheepe to bee eaten, and doest scatter vs among the nations.
12 sold your people for a pittance, and getting no gain from their price.
Thou sellest thy people without gaine, and doest not increase their price.
13 You have made us the butt of our neighbours, the derision and scorn of all round us.
Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.
14 O’er the world you have made us a byword, the nations at us shake their heads.
Thou makest vs a prouerbe among the nations, and a nodding of the head among the people.
15 My disgrace is forever before me, my face is covered with shame,
My confusion is dayly before me, and the shame of my face hath couered me,
16 at the words of blasphemer and scoffer, at the sight of the foe and the vengeful.
For the voyce of the slaunderer and rebuker, for the enemie and auenger.
17 All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you nor falsely dealt with your covenant.
All this is come vpon vs, yet doe wee not forget thee, neither deale wee falsly concerning thy couenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back, nor our steps declined from your way,
Our heart is not turned backe: neither our steps gone out of thy paths,
19 that you thus should have crushed us down, and covered us over with gloom, in the place where the jackals roam.
Albeit thou hast smitten vs downe into the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.
20 Had we forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a god that was strange,
If wee haue forgotten the Name of our God, and holden vp our hands to a strange god,
21 would God not have searched this out? For he knows the heart and its secrets.
Shall not God searche this out? for hee knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 But in your cause it is we are killed all the day, and counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Surely for thy sake are we slaine continually, and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.
23 Rouse yourself, why do you sleep Lord? Awake, cast us not off forever.
Vp, why sleepest thou, O Lord? awake, be not farre off for euer.
24 Why do you hide your face, forgetting our stress and our misery?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our miserie and our affliction?
25 For we have sunk down to the dust, our bodies cling to the ground.
For our soule is beaten downe vnto the dust: our belly cleaueth vnto the ground.
26 Arise, come to our help: for your love’s sake, ransom us.
Rise vp for our succour, and redeeme vs for thy mercies sake.
