Psalm 44:9–22

⁹But you have ^srejected us and disgraced us

and ^thave not gone out with our armies.

¹⁰You have made us ^uturn back from the foe,

and those who hate us have gotten spoil.

¹¹You have made us like ^vsheep for slaughter

and have ^wscattered us among the nations.

^12xYou have sold your people for a trifle,

demanding no high price for them.

¹³You have made us ^ythe taunt of our neighbors,

the derision and ^zscorn of those around us.

¹⁴You have made us ^aa byword among the nations,

^ba laughingstock² among the peoples.

¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me,

and ^cshame has covered my face

¹⁶at the sound of the taunter and reviler,

at the sight of ^dthe enemy and the avenger.

^17eAll this has come upon us,

though we have not forgotten you,

and we have not been false to your covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back,

nor have our ^fsteps ^gdeparted from your way;

¹⁹yet you have ^hbroken us in the place of ⁱjackals

and covered us with ^jthe shadow of death.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God

or ^kspread out our hands to ^la foreign god,

^21mwould not God discover this?

ⁿFor he knows the secrets of the heart.

²²Yet ^ofor your sake we are killed all the day long;

we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.