Psalm 44:9–22

⁹But now you have rejected us and let us be defeated;

you no longer march out with our armies.

¹⁰You made us run from our enemies,

and they took for themselves what was ours.

¹¹You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep;

you scattered us in foreign countries.

¹²You sold your own people for a small price

as though they had little value.^w

¹³Our neighbours see what you did to us,

and they mock us and laugh at us.

¹⁴You have made us an object of contempt among the nations;

they shake their heads at us in scorn.

¹⁵I am always in disgrace;

I am covered with shame

¹⁶from hearing the sneers and insults

of my enemies and those who hate me.

¹⁷All this has happened to us,

even though we have not forgotten you

or broken the covenant you made with us.

¹⁸We have not been disloyal to you;

we have not disobeyed your commands.

¹⁹Yet you left us helpless among wild animals;

you abandoned us in deepest darkness.

²⁰If we had stopped worshipping our God

and prayed to a foreign god,

²¹you would surely have discovered it,

because you know our secret thoughts.

^22*But it is on your account that we are being killed all the time,

that we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered.