Psalms Chapter 44

44 : 1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.

44 : 2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.

44 : 3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favor to them.

44 : 4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

44 : 5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

44 : 6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

44 : 7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.

44 : 8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. Selah.

44 : 9 But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.

44 : 10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

44 : 11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.

44 : 12 You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.

44 : 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

44 : 14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

44 : 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

44 : 16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

44 : 17 All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.

44 : 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;

44 : 19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

44 : 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

44 : 21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.

44 : 22 Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

44 : 23 Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

44 : 24 Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

44 : 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth.

44 : 26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.