Psalms - Chapter 44 | Good News Translation

  • 1. With our own ears we have heard it, O God--- our ancestors have told us about it, about the great things you did in their time, in the days of long ago:
  • 2. how you yourself drove out the heathen and established your people in their land; how you punished the other nations and caused your own to prosper.
  • 3. Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance of your presence, which showed that you loved them.
  • 4. You are my king and my God; you give victory to your people,
  • 5. and by your power we defeat our enemies.
  • 6. I do not trust in my bow or in my sword to save me;
  • 7. but you have saved us from our enemies and defeated those who hate us.
  • 8. We will always praise you and give thanks to you forever.
  • 9. But now you have rejected us and let us be defeated; you no longer march out with our armies.
  • 10. You made us run from our enemies, and they took for themselves what was ours.
  • 11. You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep; you scattered us in foreign countries.
  • 12. You sold your own people for a small price as though they had little value.
  • 13. Our neighbors see what you did to us, and they mock us and laugh at us.
  • 14. You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.
  • 15. I am always in disgrace; I am covered with shame
  • 16. from hearing the sneers and insults of my enemies and those who hate me.
  • 17. All this has happened to us, even though we have not forgotten you or broken the covenant you made with us.
  • 18. We have not been disloyal to you; we have not disobeyed your commands.
  • 19. Yet you left us helpless among wild animals; you abandoned us in deepest darkness.
  • 20. If we had stopped worshiping our God and prayed to a foreign god,
  • 21. you would surely have discovered it, because you know our secret thoughts.
  • 22. But it is on your account that we are being killed all the time, that we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered.
  • 23. Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself ! Don't reject us forever!
  • 24. Why are you hiding from us? Don't forget our suffering and trouble!
  • 25. We fall crushed to the ground; we lie defeated in the dust.
  • 26. Come to our aid! Because of your constant love save us!
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