Psalm 44:9–22

⁹But you have rejected us and shamed us.

You don’t march with our armies anymore.

¹⁰You let our enemies push us back,

and those who hate us have taken our wealth.

¹¹You gave us away like sheep to be eaten

and have scattered us among the nations.

¹²You sold your people for nothing

and made no profit on the sale.

¹³You made us a joke to our neighbors;

those around us laugh and make fun of us.

¹⁴You made us a joke to the other nations;

people shake their heads.

¹⁵I am always in disgrace,

and I am covered with shame.

¹⁶My enemy is getting even

with insults and curses.

¹⁷All these things have happened to us,

but we have not forgotten you

or failed to keep our agreement with you.

¹⁸Our hearts haven’t turned away from you,

and we haven’t stopped following you.

¹⁹But you crushed us in this place where wild dogs live,

and you covered us with deep darkness.

²⁰If we had forgotten our God

or lifted our hands in prayer to foreign gods,

²¹God would have known,

because he knows what is in our hearts.

²²But for you we are in danger of death all the time.

People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed.