Psalms 44:1
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou did in their days, in the days of old.
Psalms 44:2
Thou drove out the nations with thy hand, but thou planted them. Thou afflicted the peoples, but thou spread them abroad.
Psalms 44:3
For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them, but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou were favorable to them.
Psalms 44:4
Thou are my King, O God. Command deliverance for Jacob.
Psalms 44:5
Through thee we will push down our adversaries. Through thy name we will tread them under who rise up against us.
Psalms 44:6
For I will not trust in my bow, nor shall my sword save me.
Psalms 44:7
But thou have saved us from our adversaries, and have put them to shame who hate us.
Psalms 44:8
In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to thy name forever. Selah.
Psalms 44:9
But now thou have cast off, and brought us to dishonor, and go not forth with our armies.
Psalms 44:10
Thou make us to turn back from the adversary. And those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
Psalms 44:11
Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
Psalms 44:12
Thou sell thy people for nothing, and have not increased by their price.
Psalms 44:13
Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
Psalms 44:14
Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Psalms 44:15
All the day long my dishonor is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
Psalms 44:16
for the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 44:17
All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee, nor have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Psalms 44:18
Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from thy way,
Psalms 44:19
that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalms 44:20
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
Psalms 44:21
will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 44:23
Awake, why do thou sleep, O Lord? Arise, cast not off forever.
Psalms 44:24
Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 44:25
For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground.
Psalms 44:26
Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving kindness' sake.