Psalm

44 O God, with our ears we have heard,

Our forefathers themselves have recounted to us+

The activity that you performed in their days,+

In the days of long ago.+

 2 You yourself by your hand drove away even nations,+

And you proceeded to plant them [instead].+

You went breaking national groups and sending them away.+

 3 For it was not by their own sword that they took possession of the land,+

And their own arm was not what brought them salvation.+

For it was your right hand and your arm+ and the light of your face,

Because you took pleasure in them.+

 4 You yourself are my King, O God.+

Command grand salvation* for Jacob.+

 5 By you we shall push our adversaries themselves;+

In your name we shall tread down those rising up against us.+

 6 For it was not in my bow that I kept trusting+

And it was not my sword that was saving me.+

 7 For you saved us from our adversaries,+

And those intensely hating us you put to shame.+

 8 In God we will offer praise all day long,+

And to time indefinite your name we shall laud.+ Seʹlah.

 9 But now you have cast off and keep humiliating us,+

And you do not go forth with our armies.+

10 You keep making us turn back from the adversary,+

And the very ones intensely hating us have pillaged for themselves.+

11 You give us up like sheep, as something to eat,+

And among the nations you have scattered us.+

12 You sell your people for no value at all,+

And you have made no wealth by the price for them.

13 You set us as a reproach to our neighbors,+

A derision and jeering to those all around us.+

14 You set us as a proverbial saying among the nations,+

A shaking of the head among the national groups.+

15 All day long my humiliation is in front of me,

And the shame of my own face has covered me,+

16 Due to the voice of the one reproaching and speaking abusively,

Because of the enemy and the one taking his revenge.+

17 All this is what has come upon us, and we have not forgotten you,+

And we have not acted falsely in your covenant.+

18 Our heart has not turned faithlessly back,+

Nor do our footsteps deviate from your path.+

19 For you have crushed us in the place of jackals,+

And you cover us over with deep shadow.+

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God,*

Or we spread out our palms to a strange god,*+

21 Will not God himself search this out?+

For he is aware of the secrets of the heart.+

22 But for your sake we have been killed all day long;

We have been accounted as sheep for slaughtering.+

23 Do arouse yourself. Why do you keep sleeping, O Jehovah?*+

Do awake. Do not keep casting off forever.+

24 Why do you keep your very face concealed?

Why do you forget our affliction and our oppression?+

25 For our soul has bowed down* to the dust itself;+

Our belly has clung to the very earth.

26 Do arise in assistance to us+

And redeem us for the sake of your loving-kindness.+