| 44 | Psalms | ||
| National Lament. Psalm 44(v43) | |||
| 1 | We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old: | ||
| 2 | you with your own hand, drive out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but you set them free; | ||
| 3 | for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance; for you delighted in them. | ||
| 4 | You are my King and my God, who ordains victories for Jacob. | ||
| 5 | Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down our assailants. | ||
| 6 | For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me. | ||
| 7 | But you have saved us from our foes, and have put to confusion those who hate us. | ||
| 8 | In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name for ever. | ||
| 9 | Yet you have cast us off and abased us, and have not gone out with our armies. | ||
| 10 | You have made us turn back from the foe; and our enemies have gotten spoil. | ||
| 11 | You have made us like sheep for slaughter, and have scattered us among the nations. | ||
| 12 | You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them. | ||
| 13 | You have made us the taunt of our neighbours, the derision and scorn of those about us. | ||
| 14 | You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples. | ||
| 15 | All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face, | ||
| 16 | at the words of the taunters and revilers, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger. | ||
| 17 | All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, or been false to your covenant. | ||
| 18 | Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way, | ||
| 19 | that you should have broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness. | ||
| 20 | If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god, | ||
| 21 | would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart. | ||
| 22 | Nay, for your sake we are slain all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter. | ||
| 23 | Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Yahweh? Awake! Do not cast us off for ever! | ||
| 24 | Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression? | ||
| 25 | For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body cleaves to the ground. | ||
| 26 | Rise up, come to our help! Deliver us for the sake of your steadfast love! | ||
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