| Psa. 44:1 |
O God, we have heard with our ears; / Our fathers have recounted [it] to us, / The work You did in their days, / In the days of old. |
| Psa. 44:2 |
You, by Your hand, / Have dispossessed nations, but You have planted our fathers; / You afflicted peoples, but You spread our fathers forth. |
| Psa. 44:3 |
For they did not possess the land by their sword, / Nor did their arm save them; / Rather [it was] Your right hand and Your arm, / And the light of Your countenance; / For You delighted in them. |
| Psa. 44:4 |
You are my King, O God; / Command salvation for Jacob. |
| Psa. 44:5 |
Through You we thrust back our adversaries; / Through Your name we trample those who rise up against us. |
| Psa. 44:6 |
For I will not trust in my bow, / Nor will my sword save me. |
| Psa. 44:7 |
But You save us from our adversaries, / And You put to shame those who hate us. |
| Psa. 44:8 |
In God we boast all day long, / And we praise Your name forever. Selah |
| Psa. 44:9 |
Nevertheless You have rejected [us] and humiliated us, / And You have not gone forth with our armies. |
| Psa. 44:10 |
You have caused us to turn back from the adversary, / And those who hate us take spoil for themselves. |
| Psa. 44:11 |
You have given us over like sheep to be eaten / And have scattered us among the nations. |
| Psa. 44:12 |
You have sold Your people for nothing / And have not gone high on their price. |
| Psa. 44:13 |
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, / A mocking and a derision to those around us. |
| Psa. 44:14 |
You have made us a proverb among the nations, / Something to shake the head at among the peoples. |
| Psa. 44:15 |
All day long my humiliation is before me, / And the shame of my face covers me, |
| Psa. 44:16 |
Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, / Because of the presence of the enemy and of him who avenges himself. |
| Psa. 44:17 |
All this has come upon us; but we have not forgotten You, / Nor have we been false to Your covenant. |
| Psa. 44:18 |
Our heart has not turned back, / Nor have our steps deviated from Your way; |
| Psa. 44:19 |
But You have crushed us in the place of jackals / And have covered us with the shadow of death. |
| Psa. 44:20 |
If we have forgotten the name of our God / Or spread out our hands to a strange god, |
| Psa. 44:21 |
Will God not search this out? / For He knows the hidden things of the heart. |
| Psa. 44:22 |
But for Your sake we are slain all day long; / We are considered as sheep for slaughter. |
| Psa. 44:23 |
Awake! Why are You sleeping, O Lord? / Arise! Do not reject [us] forever. |
| Psa. 44:24 |
Why do You hide Your face / [And] forget our affliction and our oppression? |
| Psa. 44:25 |
For our soul bows down to the dust; / Our body clings to the earth. |
| Psa. 44:26 |
Rise up; be our help, / And redeem us for Your lovingkindness' sake. |