Psalms - Chapter 44 | New King James Version

  • 1. To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation {cf2super [34]} of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, The deeds You did in their days, In days of old:
  • 2. You drove out the nations with Your hand, But them You planted; You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.
  • 3. For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, Because You favored them.
  • 4. You are my King, O God; {cf2super [35]} Command {cf2super [36]} victories for Jacob.
  • 5. Through You we will push down our enemies; Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
  • 6. For I will not trust in my bow, Nor shall my sword save me.
  • 7. But You have saved us from our enemies, And have put to shame those who hated us.
  • 8. In God we boast all day long, And praise Your name forever. Selah
  • 9. But You have cast us off and put us to shame, And You do not go out with our armies.
  • 10. You make us turn back from the enemy, And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
  • 11. You have given us up like sheep intended for food, And have scattered us among the nations.
  • 12. You sell Your people for next to nothing, And are not enriched by selling them.
  • 13. You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
  • 14. You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
  • 15. My dishonor is continually before me, And the shame of my face has covered me,
  • 16. Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, Because of the enemy and the avenger.
  • 17. All this has come upon us; But we have not forgotten You, Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
  • 18. Our heart has not turned back, Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
  • 19. But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
  • 20. If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,
  • 21. Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
  • 22. Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • 23. Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
  • 24. Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?
  • 25. For our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body clings to the ground.
  • 26. Arise for our help, And redeem us for Your mercies' sake.
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