Psalm 44

Revised Geneva Translation

44 We have heard with our ears, O God. Our fathers have told us the works that You have done in their days, in the old time.

² You have driven out the heathen with Your hand and planted them. You have destroyed the people and caused them to go.

³ For they did not inherit the land by their own sword (nor did their own arm save them) but by Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your countenance; because You favored them.

⁴ You are my King, O God! Send help to Jacob!

⁵ Through You we have thrust back our adversaries. By Your Name we have trodden down those who rose up against us.

⁶ For I do not trust in my bow; nor can my sword save me.

⁷ But You have saved us from our adversaries and have put those who hate us to confusion.

⁸ We will praise God continually and will confess Your Name forever. Selah.

⁹ But now, You are far off and put us to confusion, and do not go forth with our armies.

¹⁰ You make us turn back from the adversary, and those who hate us get plunder for themselves.

¹¹ You give us as sheep to be eaten and scatter us among the nations.

¹² You sell Your people without gain, and do not increase their price.

¹³ You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a jest and laughing stock to those who surround us.

¹⁴ You make us a proverb among the nations, and a nodding of the head among the people.

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

¹⁶ because of the voice of the slanderer and rebuker, because of the enemy and avenger.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us. Still, we do not forget You. Nor do we deal falsely concerning Your Covenant.

¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps gone out of Your paths;

¹⁹ even though You have struck us down into the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and held up our hands to a strange god,

²¹ shall not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

²² Surely, for Your sake we are killed continually and are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³ Up! Why do You sleep, O LORD? Awake! Be not far off forever.

²⁴ Why do you hide Your face and forget our misery and our affliction?

²⁵ For our soul is beaten down to the dust. Our belly clings to the ground.

²⁶ Rise up for our succor; and redeem us for Your mercy’s sake. To him who excels on Shoshannim: a song of love to give instruction, committed to the sons of Korah.