Psalm 44:9–22

⁹But now you have rejected and disgraced us. 

You do not even go along with our armies. 

¹⁰You make us retreat from the enemy. 

Those who hate us rob us at will. 

¹¹You hand us over to be butchered like sheep 

and scatter us among the nations. 

¹²You sell your people for almost nothing, 

and at that price you have gained nothing. 

¹³You made us a disgrace to our neighbors 

and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us. 

¹⁴You made our ⸤defeat⸥ a proverb among the nations 

so that people shake their heads at us. 

¹⁵All day long my disgrace is in front of me. 

Shame covers my face 

¹⁶because of the words of those who insult and slander us, 

because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger. 

¹⁷Although all of this happened to us, 

we never forgot you. 

We never ignored your promise.^b

¹⁸Our hearts never turned away. 

Our feet never left your path. 

¹⁹Yet, you crushed us in a place for jackals 

and covered us with the shadow of death. 

²⁰If we forgot the name of our God 

or stretched out our hands to pray to another god, 

²¹wouldn’t God find out, 

since he knows the secrets in our hearts? 

²²Indeed, we are being killed all day long because of you. 

We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.