Psalms 44

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites.	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 O God, we have heard with our own ears; our ancestors have told us The deeds you did in their days, with your own hand in days of old:	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 You rooted out nations to plant them, crushed peoples to make room for them.	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 Not with their own swords did they conquer the land, nor did their own arms bring victory; It was your right hand, your own arm, the light of your face for you favored them.	4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 You are my king and my God, who bestows victories on Jacob.	5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 Through you we batter our foes; through your name, trample our adversaries.	6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7 Not in my bow do I trust, nor does my sword bring me victory.	7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8 You have brought us victory over our enemies, shamed those who hate us.	8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9 In God we have boasted all the day long; your name we will praise forever. Selah	9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10 But now you have rejected and disgraced us; you do not march out with our armies.	10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 You make us retreat before the foe; those who hate us plunder us at will.	11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12 You hand us over like sheep to be slaughtered, scatter us among the nations.	12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13 You sell your people for nothing; you make no profit from their sale.	13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14 You make us the reproach of our neighbors, the mockery and scorn of those around us.	14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.	15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16 All day long my disgrace is before me; shame has covered my face	16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 At the sound of those who taunt and revile, at the sight of the spiteful enemy.	17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, nor been disloyal to your covenant.	18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
19 Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path.	19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 Yet you have left us crushed, desolate in a place of jackals; you have covered us with darkness.	20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21 If we had forgotten the name of our God, stretched out our hands to another god,	21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Would not God have discovered this, God who knows the secrets of the heart?	22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 For you we are slain all the day long, considered only as sheep to be slaughtered.	23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24 Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Rise up! Do not reject us forever!	24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25 Why do you hide your face; why forget our pain and misery?	25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26 We are bowed down to the ground; our bodies are pressed to the earth.	26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
27 Rise up, help us! Redeem us as your love demands.