Psalm 44

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁴ You are ^(L)my King, O God;
^(M)Command ^[b]victories for Jacob.
⁵ Through You we will ^(N)push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will ^(O)trample down those who rise up against us.
⁶ For I will ^(P)not trust in my bow,
Nor will my sword save me.
⁷ But You ^(Q)have saved us from our adversaries,
And You have ^(R)put to shame those who hate us.
⁸ In God we have ^(S)boasted all day long,
And we will ^(T)give thanks to Your name forever. ^[c]Selah.

⁹ Yet You ^(U)have rejected us and brought us to ^(V)dishonor,
And ^(W)do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰ You cause us to ^(X)turn back from the adversary;
And those who hate us ^(Y)have taken spoil for themselves.
¹¹ You give us as ^(Z)sheep ^[d]to be eaten
And have ^(AA)scattered us among the nations.
¹² You ^(AB)sell Your people ^[e]cheaply,
And have not ^[f]profited by their sale.
¹³ You make us a ^(AC)reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a ^(AD)derision to those around us.
¹⁴ You make us ^(AE)a byword among the nations,
A ^[g](AF)laughingstock among the peoples.
¹⁵ All day long my dishonor is before me
And ^[h]my ^(AG)humiliation has overwhelmed me,
¹⁶ Because of the voice of him who ^(AH)reproaches and reviles,
Because of the presence of the ^(AI)enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us, but we have ^(AJ)not forgotten You,
And we have not ^(AK)dealt falsely with Your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not ^(AL)turned back,
And our steps ^(AM)have not deviated from Your way,
¹⁹ Yet You have ^(AN)crushed us in a place of ^(AO)jackals
And covered us with ^(AP)the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we had ^(AQ)forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our ^[i]hands to ^(AR)a strange god,
²¹ Would not God ^(AS)find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
²² But ^(AT)for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as ^(AU)sheep to be slaughtered.
^23 (AV)Arouse Yourself, why ^(AW)do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, ^(AX)do not reject us forever.
²⁴ Why do You ^(AY)hide Your face
And ^(AZ)forget our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵ For our ^(BA)soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.
^26 (BB)Rise up, be our help,
And ^(BC)redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.