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15 All day long I feel humiliated[a]
and am overwhelmed with shame,[b]
16 before the vindictive enemy
who ridicules and insults me.[c]
17 All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you[d]
or violated your covenant with us.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44:15 tn Heb “all the day my humiliation [is] in front of me.”
  2. Psalm 44:15 tn Heb “and the shame of my face covers me.”
  3. Psalm 44:16 tn Heb “from the voice of one who ridicules and insults, from the face of an enemy and an avenger.” See Ps 8:2.
  4. Psalm 44:17 tn Heb “we have not forgotten you.” To “forget” God refers here to worshiping false gods and thereby refusing to recognize his sovereignty (see v. 20, as well as Deut 8:19; Judg 3:7; 1 Sam 12:9; Isa 17:10; Jer 3:21; Ps 9:17).Thus the translation “we have not rejected you” has been used.
  5. Psalm 44:17 tn Heb “and we did not deal falsely with your covenant.”

15 I live in disgrace(A) all day long,
    and my face is covered with shame(B)
16 at the taunts(C) of those who reproach and revile(D) me,
    because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.(E)

17 All this came upon us,
    though we had not forgotten(F) you;
    we had not been false to your covenant.

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