Psalm 44
1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
[SUP]16 [/SUP]For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
[SUP]19 [/SUP]Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
[SUP]21 [/SUP]Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
[SUP]23 [/SUP]Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
[SUP]24 [/SUP]Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
[SUP]25 [/SUP]For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
[SUP]16 [/SUP]For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
[SUP]19 [/SUP]Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
[SUP]21 [/SUP]Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
[SUP]23 [/SUP]Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
[SUP]24 [/SUP]Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
[SUP]25 [/SUP]For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.