Psalm 44:9–22

⁹Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us,

and hast not gone out with our armies.

¹⁰Thou hast made us turn back from the foe;

and our enemies have gotten spoil.

¹¹Thou hast made us like sheep for slaughter,

and hast scattered us among the nations.

¹²Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle,

demanding no high price for them.

¹³Thou hast made us the taunt of our neighbors,

the derision and scorn of those about us.

¹⁴Thou hast made us a byword among the nations,

a laughingstock 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,

though we have not forgotten thee,

or been false to thy covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back,

nor have our steps departed from thy way,

¹⁹that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals,

and covered us with deep darkness.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God,

or spread forth our hands to a strange god,

²¹would not God discover this?

For he knows the secrets of the heart.

²²Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long,

and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.