Psalms, 44

1. <To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.> 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.

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2. [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

2. With our ears, O God, we have heard; our fathers have declared to us the works you did in their days of old.

3. 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.

3. You drove out the nations and settled our fathers in their land; you conquered the peoples to make room for them.

4. Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

4. For it was not with their own sword that they conquered the land nor were they victors by their own hand; but it was by your right hand and arm and by the light of your countenance; for you truly loved them.

5. Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

5. It is you, my King and my God, who ordain victories for Jacob.

6. For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

6. Through you we batter down our foes; through your name we shatter our enemies.

7. But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

7. For it is not in my bow that I trust, nor in my sword to make me victorious.

8. In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

8. But it is you who give us victory, you who bring our adversaries to shame.

9. But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

9. It is always in God that we find glory. Forever shall we praise your name.

10. Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

10. Yet now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go forth with our armies.

11. Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

11. You have let our enemies drive us back and our adversaries plunder us.

12. Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price.

12. You have let us be driven for slaughter like sheep, scattered among nations as captives.

13. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

13. You have handed us over to them for nothing: the sale was of no benefit for you.

14. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

14. You have made us the butt of our neighbors' insult, the scorn and laughingstock of those around us.

15. My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

15. You have made us a byword among the nations; they look at us and shake their heads.

16. For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

16. All day long my disgrace is before me and shame covers my face,

17. All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

17. at the voice of the one who mocks and reviles, in the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

18. Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

18. All this has happened to us, although we have not forgotten you, nor have we been untrue to your covenant.

19. Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

19. Our heart has not turned back nor have our steps faltered;

20. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

20. yet you have crushed us in the desert of the snakes and covered us with deep darkness.

21. Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

21. Had we forgotten the name of our God and stretched forth our hands to an alien god,

22. Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

22. God would have discovered this, for the secrets of the heart are not hidden from him.

23. Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.

23. For your sake we are slain all day and accounted as sheep for slaughter.

24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

24. Awake, O Lord! Why are you asleep? Arise! Reject us not forever.

25. For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

25. Why hide your face from us? Why forget our misery and woes?

26. Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

26. Our souls are humbled in the dust, our bodies smashed to the ground.

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27. Come to our help, deliver us for the sake of your kindness.