Psalm 44:9–22

⁹But now you have rejected^e and humbled us;^f

you no longer go out with our armies.^g

¹⁰You made us retreat^h before the enemy,

and our adversaries have plunderedⁱ us.

¹¹You gave us up to be devoured like sheep^j

and have scattered us among the nations.^k

¹²You sold your people for a pittance,^l

gaining nothing from their sale.

¹³You have made us a reproach^m to our neighbors,ⁿ

the scorn^o and derision^p of those around us.

¹⁴You have made us a byword^q among the nations;

the peoples shake their heads^r at us.

¹⁵I live in disgrace^s all day long,

and my face is covered with shame^t

¹⁶at the taunts^u of those who reproach and revile^v me,

because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.^w

¹⁷All this came upon us,

though we had not forgotten^x you;

we had not been false to your covenant.

¹⁸Our hearts had not turned^y back;

our feet had not strayed from your path.

¹⁹But you crushed^z us and made us a haunt for jackals;^a

you covered us over with deep darkness.^b

²⁰If we had forgotten^c the name of our God

or spread out our hands to a foreign god,^d

²¹would not God have discovered it,

since he knows the secrets of the heart?^e

²²Yet for your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep^f to be slaughtered.^g