44Psalms 44

1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.Select Psalms 44:1

2How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.Select Psalms 44:2

3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favor to them.Select Psalms 44:3

4You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.Select Psalms 44:4

5Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.Select Psalms 44:5

6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.Select Psalms 44:6

7But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.Select Psalms 44:7

8In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. Selah.Select Psalms 44:8

9But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.Select Psalms 44:9

10You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.Select Psalms 44:10

11You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.Select Psalms 44:11

12You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.Select Psalms 44:12

13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.Select Psalms 44:13

14You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.Select Psalms 44:14

15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,Select Psalms 44:15

16For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.Select Psalms 44:16

17All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.Select Psalms 44:17

18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;Select Psalms 44:18

19Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.Select Psalms 44:19

20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;Select Psalms 44:20

21Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.Select Psalms 44:21

22Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.Select Psalms 44:22

23Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.Select Psalms 44:23

24Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?Select Psalms 44:24

25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth.Select Psalms 44:25

26Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.Select Psalms 44:26