Psalms - Chapter 44 | American Standard Version

  • 1. For the Chief Musician. {cf15i A Psalm} of 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 days of old.
  • 2. Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.
  • 3. For they gat 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 wast favorable unto them.
  • 4. Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.
  • 5. Through thee will we push down our adversaries: Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
  • 6. For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.
  • 7. But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us.
  • 8. In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. {cf15i Selah.}
  • 9. But now thou hast cast {cf15i us} off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
  • 10. Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.
  • 11. Thou hast made us like sheep {cf15i appointed} for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.
  • 12. Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased {cf15i thy wealth} by their price.
  • 13. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
  • 14. Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
  • 15. All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me,
  • 16. For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger.
  • 17. All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
  • 18. Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way,
  • 19. That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
  • 20. If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
  • 21. Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
  • 22. Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • 23. Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast {cf15i us} not off for ever.
  • 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
  • 25. For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth.
  • 26. Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake.
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