Psalm 44

PSALM 44

Rise Up, Be Our Help

For the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A ^†Maskil.

¹O God, we have heard with our ears,

Our ^afathers have recounted to us

The ^bwork that You did in their days,

In the ^cdays of old.

²You with Your own hand ^adispossessed the nations;

Then You ^bplanted them;

You ^cafflicted the peoples,

Then You ^dcast them out.

³For by their own sword they ^adid not possess the land,

And their own arm did not save them,

But Your right hand and Your ^barm and the ^clight of Your presence,

For You ^dfavored them.

⁴You are ^amy King, O God;

^bCommand ¹salvation for Jacob.

⁵Through You we will ^apush back our adversaries;

Through Your name we will ^btread down those who rise up against us.

⁶For I will ^anot trust in my bow,

And my sword will not save me.

⁷But You ^ahave saved us from our adversaries,

And You have ^bput to shame those who hate us.

⁸In God we have ^aboasted all day long,

And we will ^bgive thanks to Your name forever. ¹Selah.

⁹Yet You ^ahave rejected us and brought us to ^bdishonor,

And ^cdo not go out with our armies.

¹⁰You cause us to ^aturn back from the adversary;

And those who hate us ^bhave plundered us for themselves.

¹¹You give us as ^asheep ¹to be eaten

And have ^bscattered us among the nations.

¹²You ^asell Your people ¹for no amount,

And You have not ²profited from their price.

¹³You make us a ^areproach to our neighbors,

A mockery and a ^bderision to those around us.

¹⁴You make us ^aa byword among the nations,

A ^1blaughingstock among the peoples.

¹⁵All day long my dishonor is before me

And ¹the ^ashame of my face has covered me,

¹⁶Because of the voice of him who ^areproaches and reviles,

Because of the presence of the ^benemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this has come upon us, but we have ^anot forgotten You,

And we have not ^bdealt falsely with Your covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not ^aturned back,

Nor have our steps ^bdeviated from Your path,

¹⁹Yet You have ^acrushed us in a place of ^bjackals

And covered us with ^cthe shadow of death.

²⁰If we had ^aforgotten the name of our God

Or spread our ¹hands to ^ba strange god,

²¹Would not God ^afind this out?

For He knows the secrets of the heart.

²²But ^afor Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are counted as ^bsheep for the slaughter.

^23aArouse Yourself, why ^bdo You sleep, O Lord?

Awake, ^cdo not reject us forever.

²⁴Why do You ^ahide Your face

And ^bforget our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For our ^asoul has sunk down into the dust;

Our ¹body cleaves to the earth.

^26aRise up, be our help,

And ^bredeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.