Psalm 44:9–22

⁹But You have rejected and humiliated us;

You do not march out with our armies. ^s

¹⁰You make us retreat from the foe,

and those who hate us

have taken plunder for themselves. ^t

¹¹You hand us over to be eaten like sheep

and scatter us among the nations. ^u

¹²You sell Your people for nothing;

You make no profit from selling them. ^v

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

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

¹⁴You make us a joke among the nations,

a laughingstock ^xamong the peoples. ^y

¹⁵My disgrace is before me all day long,

and shame has covered my face, ^z

¹⁶because of the voice of the scorner and reviler,

because of the enemy and avenger. ^a

¹⁷All this has happened to us,

but we have not forgotten You

or betrayed Your covenant. ^b

¹⁸Our hearts have not turned back;

our steps have not strayed from Your path. ^c

¹⁹But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackals

and have covered us with deepest darkness. ^d

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God

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

²¹wouldn’t God have found this out,

since He knows the secrets of the heart? ^f

²²Because of You we are slain all day long;

we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered. ^g