Psalms 44

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
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 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 by your hand. To establish them in the land you drove out nations, to make room for them you harriedpeoples.	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 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 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 You are my king, my God, who decreed Jacob's victories;	4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 through you we conquered our opponents, in your name we trampled down those who rose up againstus.	5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 For my trust was not in my bow, my victory was not won by my sword;	6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7 it was you who saved us from our opponents, you who put to shame those who hate us.	7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8 Our boast was always of God, we praised your name without ceasing.Pause	8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9 Yet now you have abandoned and humiliated us, you no longer take the field with our armies,	9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10 you leave us to fall back before the enemy, those who hate us plunder us at wil .	10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 You hand us over like sheep for slaughter, you scatter us among the nations,	11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12 you sell your people for a trifle and make no profit on the sale.	12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13 You make us the butt of our neighbours, the mockery and scorn of those around us,	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 a by-word among nations, other peoples shake their heads over us.	14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 Al day long I brood on my disgrace, the shame written clear on my face,	15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16 from the sound of insult and abuse, from the sight of hatred and vengefulness.	16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 Al this has befal en us though we had not forgotten you, nor been disloyal to your covenant,	17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18 our hearts never turning away, our feet never straying from your path.	18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
19 Yet you have crushed us in the place where jackals live, and immersed us in shadow dark as death.	19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 Had we forgotten the name of our God and stretched out our hands to a foreign god,	20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21 would not God have found this out, for he knows the secrets of the heart?	21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 For your sake we are being massacred all day long, treated as sheep to be slaughtered.	22 Yea, for thy sake are we 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 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24 Why do you turn your face away, forgetting that we are poor and harrassed?	24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25 For we are bowed down to the dust, and lie prone on the ground.	25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26 Arise! Come to our help! Ransom us, as your faithful love demands.	26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.