Psalms 44

1. (Ps 44:1) We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
2. (Ps 44:2) How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
3. (Ps 44:3) For 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.
4. (Ps 44:4) Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5. (Ps 44:5) Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6. (Ps 44:6) For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7. (Ps 44:7) But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8. (Ps 44:8) In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9. (Ps 44:9) But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10. (Ps 44:10) Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11. (Ps 44:11) Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12. (Ps 44:12) Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13. (Ps 44:13) Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14. (Ps 44:14) Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15. (Ps 44:15) My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16. (Ps 44:16) For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17. (Ps 44:17) All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18. (Ps 44:18) Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
19. (Ps 44:19) Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20. (Ps 44:20) If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21. (Ps 44:21) Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22. (Ps 44:22) Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23. (Ps 44:23) Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24. (Ps 44:24) Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25. (Ps 44:25) For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26. (Ps 44:26) Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.