Psalm 44:17-26

Good News Translation

¹⁷ All this has happened to us,
    even though we have not forgotten you
    or broken the covenant you made with us.
¹⁸ We have not been disloyal to you;
    we have not disobeyed your commands.
¹⁹ Yet you left us helpless among wild animals;
    you abandoned us in deepest darkness.

²⁰ If we had stopped worshiping our God
    and prayed to a foreign god,
²¹ you would surely have discovered it,
    because you know our secret thoughts.
^22 (A)But it is on your account that we are being killed all the time,
    that we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered.

²³ Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep?
    Rouse yourself Don't reject us forever!
²⁴ Why are you hiding from us?
    Don't forget our suffering and trouble!

²⁵ We fall crushed to the ground;
    we lie defeated in the dust.
²⁶ Come to our aid!
    Because of your constant love save us!