Psalm 44:9–22

⁹But you have rejected and humiliated us;

you do not march out with our armies.^w

¹⁰You make us retreat from the foe,

and those who hate us

have taken plunder for themselves.^x

¹¹You hand us over to be eaten like sheep

and scatter us among the nations.^y

¹²You sell your people for nothing;

you make no profit from selling them.^z

¹³You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors,

a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.^aa

¹⁴You make us a joke among the nations,

a laughingstock^B among the peoples.^ab

¹⁵My disgrace is before me all day long,

and shame has covered my face,^a

¹⁶because of the taunts^C of the scorner and reviler,

because of the enemy and avenger.^b

¹⁷All this has happened to us,

but we have not forgotten you

or betrayed your covenant.^c

¹⁸Our hearts have not turned back;

our steps have not strayed from your path.^d

¹⁹But you have crushed us in a haunt of jackals

and have covered us with deepest darkness.^e

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God

and spread out our hands to a foreign god,^f

²¹wouldn’t God have found this out,

since he knows the secrets of the heart?^g

²²Because of you we are being put to death all day long;

we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.^h