Psalms 44

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites.	1 To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what deeds thou didst perform in their days, in the days 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 thou with thy own hand didst drive out the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them thou didst set free;
3 You rooted out nations to plant them, crushed peoples to make room for them.	3 for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance; for thou didst delight in 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 and my God, who ordainest victories for Jacob.
5 You are my king and my God, who bestows victories on Jacob.	5 Through thee we push down our foes; through thy name we tread down our assailants.
6 Through you we batter our foes; through your name, trample our adversaries.	6 For not in my bow do I trust, nor can 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 foes, and hast put to confusion those who hate us.
8 You have brought us victory over our enemies, shamed those who hate us.	8 In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to thy name for ever. [Selah]
9 In God we have boasted all the day long; your name we will praise forever. Selah	9 Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us, and hast not gone out with our armies.
10 But now you have rejected and disgraced us; you do not march out with our armies.	10 Thou hast made us turn back from the foe; and our enemies have gotten spoil.
11 You make us retreat before the foe; those who hate us plunder us at will.	11 Thou hast made us like sheep for slaughter, and hast scattered us among the nations.
12 You hand us over like sheep to be slaughtered, scatter us among the nations.	12 Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
13 You sell your people for nothing; you make no profit from their sale.	13 Thou hast made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those about us.
14 You make us the reproach of our neighbors, the mockery and scorn of those around us.	14 Thou hast made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
15 You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.	15 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
16 All day long my disgrace is before me; shame has covered my face	16 at the words of the taunters and revilers, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.
17 At the sound of those who taunt and revile, at the sight of the spiteful enemy.	17 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten thee, or been false to thy covenant.
18 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, nor been disloyal to your covenant.	18 Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from thy way,
19 Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path.	19 that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness.
20 Yet you have left us crushed, desolate in a place of jackals; you have covered us with darkness.	20 If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
21 If we had forgotten the name of our God, stretched out our hands to another god,	21 would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Would not God have discovered this, God who knows the secrets of the heart?	22 Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 For you we are slain all the day long, considered only as sheep to be slaughtered.	23 Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!
24 Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Rise up! Do not reject us forever!	24 Why dost thou hide thy face? Why dost thou forget our affliction and 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 body cleaves to the ground.
26 We are bowed down to the ground; our bodies are pressed to the earth.	26 Rise up, come to our help! Deliver us for the sake of thy steadfast love!
27 Rise up, help us! Redeem us as your love demands.