Psalm 44:9–22

⁹But now you have turned your back on us and made us low.

You don’t march out with our armies anymore.

¹⁰You made us turn and run from our enemies.

They have taken what belongs to us.

¹¹You handed us over to be eaten up like sheep.

You have scattered us among the nations.

¹²You sold your people for very little.

You didn’t gain anything when you sold them.

¹³You have made us something that our neighbors laugh at.

Those who live around us make fun of us and tease us.

¹⁴The nations make jokes about us.

They shake their heads at us.

¹⁵All day long I am reminded of my shame.

My face is covered with it

¹⁶because of those who laugh at me and attack me with their words.

They want to get even with me.

¹⁷All of this happened to us,

even though we had not forgotten you.

We had been true to the covenant you made with us.

¹⁸Our hearts had not turned away from you.

Our feet had not wandered from your path.

¹⁹But you crushed us and left us to the wild dogs.

You covered us over with deep darkness.

²⁰We didn’t forget our God.

We didn’t spread out our hands in prayer to a strange god.

²¹If we had, God would have discovered it.

He knows the secrets of our hearts.

²²But because of you, we face death all day long.

We are considered as sheep to be killed.