Psalm 44:1–26

¹We have heard with our ears, O God, ^bOur fathers have told us,

The deeds You did in their days,

In days of old:

^2cYou drove out the ²nations with Your hand,

But them You planted;

You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.

³For ^dthey did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,

Nor did their own arm save them;

But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,

^eBecause You favored them.

^4fYou are my King, ³O God;

⁴Command victories for Jacob.

⁵Through You ^gwe will push down our enemies;

Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.

⁶For ^hI will not trust in my bow,

Nor shall my sword save me.

⁷But You have saved us from our enemies,

And have put to shame those who hated us.

⁸ⁱIn God we boast all day long,

And praise Your name forever.

Selah

⁹But ^jYou have cast us off and put us to shame,

And You do not go out with our armies.

¹⁰You make us ^kturn back from the enemy,

And those who hate us have taken ⁵spoil for themselves.

^11lYou have given us up like sheep intended for food,

And have ^mscattered us among the nations.

¹²ⁿYou sell Your people for next to nothing,

And are not enriched by selling them.

^13oYou make us a reproach to our neighbors,

A scorn and a derision to those all around us.

^14pYou make us a byword among the nations,

^qA shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁵My dishonor is continually before me,

And the shame of my face has covered me,

¹⁶Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,

^rBecause of the enemy and the avenger.

^17sAll this has come upon us;

But we have not forgotten You,

Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back,

^tNor have our steps departed from Your way;

¹⁹But You have severely broken us in ^uthe place of jackals,

And covered us ^vwith the shadow of death.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God,

Or ^wstretched ⁶out our hands to a foreign god,

^21xWould not God search this out?

For He knows the secrets of the heart.

^22yYet for Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

^23zAwake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?

Arise! Do not cast us off forever.

^24aWhy do You hide Your face,

And forget our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For ^bour soul is bowed down to the ⁷dust;

Our body clings to the ground.

²⁶Arise for our help,

And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.