Psalms 44

^{Psalms 44:1} We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

^{Psalms 44:2} With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

^{Psalms 44:3} For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

^{Psalms 44:4} You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

^{Psalms 44:5} Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.

^{Psalms 44:6} For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.

^{Psalms 44:7} For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.

^{Psalms 44:8} In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah

^{Psalms 44:9} But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

^{Psalms 44:10} You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

^{Psalms 44:11} You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

^{Psalms 44:12} You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.

^{Psalms 44:13} You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

^{Psalms 44:14} You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

^{Psalms 44:15} All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,

^{Psalms 44:16} at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

^{Psalms 44:17} All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

^{Psalms 44:18} Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

^{Psalms 44:19} But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

^{Psalms 44:20} If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

^{Psalms 44:21} would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

^{Psalms 44:22} Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

^{Psalms 44:23} Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

^{Psalms 44:24} Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?

^{Psalms 44:25} For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

^{Psalms 44:26} Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.