Psalm 44:9–22

⁹Yet you have rejected us and shamed us

and have not gone out with our armies.^*

¹⁰You made us turn back from the foe,

and our enemies have gotten spoil.^*

¹¹You have made us like sheep for slaughter

and have scattered us among the nations.^*

¹²You have sold your people for a trifle,

demanding no high price for them.^*

¹³You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,

the derision and scorn of those around us.^*

¹⁴You have made us a byword among the nations,

a laughingstock^e among the peoples.^*

¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me,

and shame has covered my face

¹⁶at the words of the taunters and revilers,

at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.^*

¹⁷All this has come upon us,

yet we have not forgotten you

or been false to your covenant.^*

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back,

nor have our steps departed from your way,^*

¹⁹yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals

and covered us with deep darkness.^*

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God

or spread out our hands to a strange god,^*

²¹would not God discover this?

For he knows the secrets of the heart.^*

²²Because of you we are being killed all day long

and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.^*