Psalm 44:9–22

⁹Surely you have rejected and disgraced us,

and have not gone out with our armies.

¹⁰You have caused us to pull back from the enemy,

and so those who hate us have plundered for themselves.

¹¹You have given us as sheep for food,

and among the nations you have scattered us.

¹²You have sold your people cheaply,^g

and did not profit by their price.

¹³You have made us a taunt to our neighbors,

a derision and a scorn to those around us.

¹⁴You have made us a byword among the nations,

a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁵All day long^h my disgrace is before me,

and the shame of my face covers me,

¹⁶because of the voice of the taunter and the reviler,

because of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you,

and we have not been false to your covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back,

and our steps have not turned aside from your way.

¹⁹But you have crushed us in a place of jackals,

and have covered us with deep shadow.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God,

or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god,

²¹would not God discover this,

for he knows the secrets of the heart?

²²Rather, on account of you we are killed all day long;ⁱ

we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.