Psalm 44:9–22

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.