The Psalms

Psalm 44

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil.

 ^44:1We have heard with our ears, O God,

 Our fathers have told us,

 What work thou didst in their days,

 In the days of old.

 ^44:2Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand;

 But them thou didst plant:

 Thou didst afflict the peoples;

 But them thou didst spread abroad.

 ^44:3For they gat 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 wast favorable unto them.

 ^44:4Thou art my King, O God:

 Command deliverance for Jacob.

 ^44:5Through thee will we push down our adversaries:

 Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

 ^44:6For I will not trust in my bow,

 Neither shall my sword save me.

 ^44:7But thou hast saved us from our adversaries,

 And hast put them to shame that hate us.

 ^44:8In God have we made our boast all the day long,

 And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever.

Selah

 ^44:9But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor,

 And goest not forth with our hosts.

 ^44:10Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary;

 And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.

 ^44:11Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food,

 And hast scattered us among the nations.

 ^44:12Thou sellest thy people for nought,

 And hast not increased thy wealth by their price.

 ^44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors,

 A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.

 ^44:14Thou makest us a byword among the nations,

 A shaking of the head among the peoples.

 ^44:15All the day long is my dishonor before me,

 And the shame of my face hath covered me,

 ^44:16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth,

 By reason of the enemy and the avenger.

 ^44:17All this is come upon us;

 Yet have we not forgotten thee,

 Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

 ^44:18Our heart is not turned back,

 Neither have our steps declined from thy way,

 ^44:19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals,

 And covered us with the shadow of death.

 ^44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God,

 Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

 ^44:21Will not God search this out?

 For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

 ^44:22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long;

 We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

 ^44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?

 Arise, cast us not off for ever.

 ^44:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face,

 And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

 ^44:25For our soul is bowed down to the dust:

 Our body cleaveth unto the earth.

 ^44:26Rise up for our help,

 And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake.