Psalms 44

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 [For the choirmaster Of the sons of Korah Poem] God, we have heard for ourselves, our ancestorshave told us, of the deeds you did in their days, in days of old,	1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.
2 by your hand. To establish them in the land you drove out nations, to make room for them you harriedpeoples.	2 We have heard, O God, with our ears : our fathers have declared to us, The work, thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.
3 It was not their own sword that won the land, nor their own arms which made them victorious, but yourhand it was and your arm, and the light of your presence, for you loved them.	3 Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them : thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
4 You are my king, my God, who decreed Jacob's victories;	4 For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword : neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance : because thou wast pleased with them.
5 through you we conquered our opponents, in your name we trampled down those who rose up againstus.	5 Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
6 For my trust was not in my bow, my victory was not won by my sword;	6 Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn : and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
7 it was you who saved us from our opponents, you who put to shame those who hate us.	7 For I will not trust in my bow : neither shall my sword save me.
8 Our boast was always of God, we praised your name without ceasing.Pause	8 But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us : and hast put them to shame that hate us.
9 Yet now you have abandoned and humiliated us, you no longer take the field with our armies,	9 In God shall we glory all the day long : and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
10 you leave us to fall back before the enemy, those who hate us plunder us at wil .	10 But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame : and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
11 You hand us over like sheep for slaughter, you scatter us among the nations,	11 Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies : and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
12 you sell your people for a trifle and make no profit on the sale.	12 Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten : thou hast scattered us among the nations.
13 You make us the butt of our neighbours, the mockery and scorn of those around us,	13 Thou hast sold thy people for no price : and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
14 you make us a by-word among nations, other peoples shake their heads over us.	14 Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
15 Al day long I brood on my disgrace, the shame written clear on my face,	15 Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles : a shaking of the head among the people.
16 from the sound of insult and abuse, from the sight of hatred and vengefulness.	16 All the day long my shame is before me : and the confusion of my face hath covered me,
17 Al this has befal en us though we had not forgotten you, nor been disloyal to your covenant,	17 At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me : at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
18 our hearts never turning away, our feet never straying from your path.	18 All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee : and we have not done wickedly in they covenant.
19 Yet you have crushed us in the place where jackals live, and immersed us in shadow dark as death.	19 And our heart hath not turned back : neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
20 Had we forgotten the name of our God and stretched out our hands to a foreign god,	20 For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction : and the shadow of death hath covered us.
21 would not God have found this out, for he knows the secrets of the heart?	21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god :
22 For your sake we are being massacred all day long, treated as sheep to be slaughtered.	22 Shall not God search out these things : for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long : we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Wake, Lord! Why are you asleep? Awake! Do not abandon us for good.	23 Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
24 Why do you turn your face away, forgetting that we are poor and harrassed?	24 Why turnest thou face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
25 For we are bowed down to the dust, and lie prone on the ground.	25 For our soul is humbled down to the dust : our belly cleaveth to the earth.
26 Arise! Come to our help! Ransom us, as your faithful love demands.	26 Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name's sake.