Psalm 44:9–22

⁹But now you have tossed us aside in dishonor.

You no longer lead our armies to battle.

¹⁰You make us retreat from our enemies

and allow those who hate us to plunder our land.

¹¹You have butchered us like sheep

and scattered us among the nations.

¹²You sold your precious people for a pittance,

making nothing on the sale.

¹³You let our neighbors mock us.

We are an object of scorn and derision to those around us.

¹⁴You have made us the butt of their jokes;

they shake their heads at us in scorn.

¹⁵We can’t escape the constant humiliation;

shame is written across our faces.

¹⁶All we hear are the taunts of our mockers.

All we see are our vengeful enemies.

¹⁷All this has happened though we have not forgotten you.

We have not violated your covenant.

¹⁸Our hearts have not deserted you.

We have not strayed from your path.

¹⁹Yet you have crushed us in the jackal’s desert home.

You have covered us with darkness and death.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God

or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods,

²¹God would surely have known it,

for he knows the secrets of every heart.

²²But for your sake we are killed every day;

we are being slaughtered like sheep.