Psalms 44
Redeem Us, O God
For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
1With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.2For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
3You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
4Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
5For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
6For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
7In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah
8But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
9You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
10You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
11You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
12You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
13You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
14All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
15at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
16All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
17Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
18But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
19If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
20would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
21Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
22Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
23Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
24For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
25Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.