Psalm 44 New American Standard Bible

Former Times of Help and Present Troubles.

For the music director. A ^[a]Maskil of the sons of Korah.

44 God, we have heard with our ears,
Our ^(A)fathers have told us
The ^(B)work that You did in their days,
In the ^(C)days of old.
²You with Your own hand ^(D)drove out the nations;
Then You ^(E)planted them;
You ^(F)afflicted the peoples,
Then You ^(G)let them go free.
³For by their own sword they ^(H)did not possess the land,
And their own arm did not save them,
But Your right hand and Your ^(I)arm and the ^(J)light of Your presence,
For You ^(K)favored them.

⁴You are ^(L)my King, God;
^(M)Command ^[b]victories for Jacob.
⁵Through You we will ^(N)push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will ^(O)trample down those who rise up against us.
⁶For I will ^(P)not trust in my bow,
Nor will my sword save me.
⁷But You ^(Q)have saved us from our adversaries,
And You have ^(R)put to shame those who hate us.
⁸In God we have ^(S)boasted all day long,
And we will ^(T)give thanks to Your name forever. Selah

⁹Yet You ^(U)have rejected us and brought us to ^(V)dishonor,
And ^(W)do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰You cause us to ^(X)turn back from the enemy;
And those who hate us ^(Y)have taken spoils for themselves.
¹¹You turn us over ^[c]to be eaten like ^(Z)sheep,
And have ^(AA)scattered us among the nations.
¹²You ^(AB)sell Your people ^[d]cheaply,
And have not ^[e]profited by their sale.
¹³You make us an object of ^(AC)reproach to our neighbors,
Of scoffing and ^(AD)ridicule to those around us.
¹⁴You make us ^(AE)a proverb among the nations,
A ^[f]^(AF)laughingstock among the peoples.
¹⁵All day long my dishonor is before me
And ^[g]I am covered with my ^(AG)humiliation,
¹⁶Because of the voice of one who ^(AH)taunts and reviles,
Because of the presence of the ^(AI)enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this has come upon us, but we have ^(AJ)not forgotten You,
And we have not ^(AK)dealt falsely with Your covenant.
¹⁸Our heart has not ^(AL)turned back,
And our steps ^(AM)have not deviated from Your way,
¹⁹Yet You have ^(AN)crushed us in a place of ^(AO)jackals
And covered us with ^[h]^(AP)deep darkness.

²⁰If we had ^(AQ)forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our ^[i]hands to ^(AR)a strange god,
²¹Would God not ^(AS)find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
²²But ^(AT)for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are regarded as ^(AU)sheep to be slaughtered.
²³^(AV)Wake Yourself up, why ^(AW)do You sleep, Lord?
Awake, ^(AX)do not reject us forever.
²⁴Why do You ^(AY)hide Your face
And ^(AZ)forget our affliction and oppression?
²⁵For our ^(BA)souls have sunk down into the dust;
Our bodies cling to the earth.
²⁶^(BB)Rise up, be our help,
And ^(BC)redeem us because of Your mercy.