PsalmsChapter 44

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¹For the music leader. A maskil of the sons of Korah.
God, we have heard it with our ears.
Our fathers have told us what you did in their days,
in the days long ago. ²With your hand you drove out the nations.
Then you planted our fathers in the land.
You crushed the peoples and threw them out. ³For they did not take the land with their own sword.
Their own arm did not win for them.
It was your right hand and your arm.
It was the light of your face, because you loved them. ⁴God, you are my King.
You command victories for Jacob. ⁵With your help we push back our enemies.
In your name we stomp on our enemies. ⁶For I do not trust in my bow.
My sword does not save me. ⁷For you save us from our enemies.
You put those who hate us to shame. ⁸We have bragged about God all day long.
We will praise your name forever. Selah ⁹But you have turned us away and brought us low.
You no longer go out with our armies. ¹⁰You made us run back from the enemy.
Those who hate us have robbed us. ¹¹You gave us up like sheep to be eaten.
You scattered us among the nations. ¹²You sell your people for nothing.
You make no money from selling them. ¹³You made our neighbors look down on us.
Those around us mock us and laugh at us. ¹⁴You made us a joke among the nations.
The peoples laugh at us. ¹⁵All day long my shame is in front of me.
My face is covered with shame, ¹⁶because of the voice of those who mock me and insult me,
because of the enemy who wants to get even. ¹⁷All this has happened to us,
even though we have not forgotten you.
We have not been false to your covenant. ¹⁸Our hearts have not turned back.
Our steps have not wandered from your path. ¹⁹But you crushed us in the place where jackals live.
You covered us with the deepest darkness. ²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God,
or lifted our hands to a foreign god, ²¹wouldn't God have found it out?
For he knows the secrets of the heart. ²²Yet because of you we face death all day long.
We are thought of as sheep to be killed. ²³Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping?
Get up! Do not turn us away forever. ²⁴Why do you hide your face?
Why do you forget our pain and how we are crushed? ²⁵For our soul has sunk down to the dust.
Our bodies lie flat on the ground. ²⁶Get up and help us!
Redeem us because of your faithful love.