Psalms Chapter 44
| 1 | We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. | 2 | How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, 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 thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. | 4 | Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. | 5 | Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. | 6 | For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. | 7 | But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. | 8 | In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. | 9 | But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. | 10 | Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. | 11 | Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. | 12 | Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. | 13 | Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. | 14 | Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. | 15 | My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, | 16 | For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. | 17 | All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. | 18 | Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; | 19 | Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. | 20 | If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; | 21 | Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. | 22 | Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. | 23 | Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. | 24 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? | 25 | For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. | 26 | Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. |