Psalm 44 (TRV)

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• 0 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.

• 1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, which works You did in their days, in times of old:

• 2 How you drove out the heathen with Your hand, and planted them; how You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.

• 3 Because, they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them; but Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, because You had favored them.

• 4 You are my King, O God; command deliverances for Jacob.

• 5 Through You we will push down our enemies; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.

• 6 Because I will not trust in my bow, nor will 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 the 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 like sheep appointed for food, and have scattered us among the heathen.

• 12 You sell Your people for nothing, and do not increase Your wealth by their price.

• 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those who are all around us.

• 14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

• 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

• 16 because of the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, because of the enemy and avenger.

• 17 All this has come upon us; but we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.

• 18 Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps deviated from Your way;

• 19 though You have severely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

• 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,

• 21 would not God search this out? Because He knows the secrets of the heart.

• 22 Yes, 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 Because, our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the earth.

• 26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.