Psalm 44:13-26

New King James Version

^13 (A)You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
^14 (B)You make us a byword among the nations,
^(C)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,
^(D)Because of the enemy and the avenger.

^17 (E)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,
^(F)Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
¹⁹ But You have severely broken us in ^(G)the place of jackals,
And covered us ^(H)with the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or ^(I)stretched^[a] out our hands to a foreign god,
^21 (J)Would not God search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
^22 (K)Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

^23 (L)Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
^24 (M)Why do You hide Your face,
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵ For ^(N)our soul is bowed down to the ^[b]dust;
Our body clings to the ground.
²⁶ Arise for our help,
And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.