Psalms - Chapter 44 | New International Version

  • 1. {For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.} We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.
  • 2. With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish.
  • 3. It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
  • 4. You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob.
  • 5. Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.
  • 6. I do not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;
  • 7. but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame.
  • 8. In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever. Selah
  • 9. But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.
  • 10. You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us.
  • 11. You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.
  • 12. You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.
  • 13. You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.
  • 14. You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
  • 15. My disgrace is before me all day long, and my face is covered with shame
  • 16. at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.
  • 17. All this happened to us, though we had not forgotten you or been false to your covenant.
  • 18. Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.
  • 19. But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals and covered us over with deep darkness.
  • 20. If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
  • 21. would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?
  • 22. Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
  • 23. Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.
  • 24. Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?
  • 25. We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.
  • 26. Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love.
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