44Psalms 44

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

2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst 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 thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.Select Psalms 44:3

4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.Select Psalms 44:4

5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy 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 thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.Select Psalms 44:7

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

9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.Select Psalms 44:9

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

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

12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.Select Psalms 44:12

13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.Select Psalms 44:13

14Thou makest 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 hath covered me,Select Psalms 44:15

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

17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.Select Psalms 44:17

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

19Though thou hast 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 knoweth the secrets of the heart.Select Psalms 44:21

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

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

24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?Select Psalms 44:24

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

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