Psalm 44:9–22

⁹But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies; ¹⁰Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves; ¹¹Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations; ¹²Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price; ¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us; ¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. ¹⁵All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, ¹⁶Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant: ¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path; ¹⁹Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. ²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange •god, ²¹Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. ²²But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.