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Salmos 44
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44 Oh Dios, nuestros oídos han oído
    y nuestros antepasados nos han contado
las proezas que realizaste en sus días,
    en aquellos tiempos pasados:
2 Con tu propia mano expulsaste a las naciones
    y en su lugar plantaste a nuestros antepasados;
aplastaste a aquellos pueblos,
    y a nuestros antepasados los hiciste prosperar.[a]
3 Porque no fue su espada la que conquistó la tierra
    ni fue su brazo el que les dio la victoria:
fue tu brazo, tu mano derecha;
    fue la luz de tu rostro, porque tú los amabas.

4 Solo tú eres mi Rey y mi Dios.
    ¡Decreta las victorias de Jacob!
5 Por ti derrotamos a nuestros enemigos;
    en tu nombre aplastamos a nuestros agresores.
6 Yo no confío en mi arco
    ni puede mi espada darme la victoria;
7 tú nos das la victoria sobre nuestros enemigos,
    y dejas en vergüenza a nuestros adversarios.
8 ¡Por siempre nos gloriaremos en Dios!
    ¡Por siempre alabaremos tu nombre! Selah

9 Pero ahora nos has rechazado y humillado;
    ya no sales con nuestros ejércitos.
10 Nos hiciste retroceder ante el enemigo;
    nos han saqueado nuestros adversarios.
11 Nos has entregado para que nos devoren como ovejas
    nos has dispersado entre las naciones.
12 Has vendido a tu pueblo por una miseria
    y nada has ganado con su venta.

13 Nos has dejado en ridículo ante nuestros vecinos;
    somos la burla y el escarnio de los que nos rodean.
14 Nos has hecho el hazmerreír de las naciones;
    todos los pueblos se burlan de nosotros.
15 La humillación no me deja un solo instante;
    se me cae la cara de vergüenza
16 por las burlas de los que me insultan y me ofenden,
    por culpa del enemigo que está presto a la venganza.

17 Todo esto nos ha sucedido,
    a pesar de que nunca te olvidamos
    ni faltamos jamás a tu pacto.
18 Nuestro corazón no ha vuelto atrás
    ni nos hemos apartado de tu senda.
19 Pero tú nos arrojaste a una cueva de chacales;
    ¡nos envolviste en la más tenebrosa oscuridad!

20 Si hubiéramos olvidado el nombre de nuestro Dios
    o extendido nuestras manos a un dios extraño,
21 ¿acaso Dios no lo habría descubierto,
    ya que él conoce los más íntimos secretos?
22 Por tu causa siempre nos llevan a la muerte;
    ¡nos tratan como a ovejas para el matadero!

23 ¡Despierta, Señor! ¿Por qué duermes?
    ¡Levántate! No nos rechaces para siempre.
24 ¿Por qué escondes tu rostro
    y te olvidas de nuestro sufrimiento y opresión?

25 Estamos abatidos hasta el polvo;
    nuestro cuerpo se arrastra por el suelo.
26 ¡Levántate, ven a ayudarnos!
    ¡Por tu gran amor, rescátanos!

Footnotes

  1. 44:2 los hiciste prosperar. Lit. los libraste.
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Psalm 44
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

Psalm 44[a]

God’s Past Favor and Israel’s Present Need

1 For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites.

I

2 O God, we have heard with our own ears;
    our ancestors have told us(A)
The deeds you did in their days,
    with your own hand in days of old:
3 You rooted out nations to plant them,(B)
    crushed peoples and expelled them.
4 Not with their own swords did they conquer the land,(C)
    nor did their own arms bring victory;
It was your right hand, your own arm,
    the light of your face for you favored them.(D)
5 You are my king and my God,(E)
    who bestows victories on Jacob.
6 Through you we batter our foes;
    through your name we trample our adversaries.
7 Not in my bow do I trust,
    nor does my sword bring me victory.
8 You have brought us victory over our enemies,
    shamed those who hate us.
9 In God we have boasted all the day long;
    your name we will praise forever.
Selah

II

10 (F)But now you have rejected and disgraced us;
    you do not march out with our armies.(G)
11 You make us retreat[b] before the foe;
    those who hate us plunder us at will.(H)
12 You hand us over like sheep to be slaughtered,
    scatter us among the nations.(I)
13 You sell your people for nothing;
    you make no profit from their sale.(J)
14 You make us the reproach of our neighbors,(K)
    the mockery and scorn of those around us.
15 You make us a byword among the nations;
    the peoples shake their heads at us.
16 All day long my disgrace is before me;
    shame has covered my face
17 At the sound of those who taunt and revile,
    at the sight of the enemy and avenger.

III

18 All this has come upon us,
    though we have not forgotten you,
    nor been disloyal to your covenant.
19 [c]Our hearts have not turned back,
    nor have our steps strayed from your path.
20 Yet you have left us crushed,
    desolate in a place of jackals;[d](L)
    you have covered us with a shadow of death.
21 If we had forgotten the name of our God,
    stretched out our hands to another god,
22 Would not God have discovered this,
    God who knows the secrets of the heart?
23 For you we are slain all the day long,
    considered only as sheep to be slaughtered.(M)

IV

24 Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
    Rise up! Do not reject us forever!(N)
25 Why do you hide your face;(O)
    why forget our pain and misery?
26 For our soul has been humiliated in the dust;(P)
    our belly is pressed to the earth.
27 Rise up, help us!
    Redeem us in your mercy.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44 In this lament the community reminds God of past favors which it has always acknowledged (Ps 44:2–9). But now God has abandoned Israel to defeat and humiliation (Ps 44:10–17), though the people are not conscious of any sin against the covenant (Ps 44:18–23). They struggle with being God’s special people amid divine silence; yet they continue to pray (Ps 44:24–26).
  2. 44:11 You make us retreat: the corollary of Ps 44:3. Defeat, like victory, is God’s doing; neither Israel nor its enemies can claim credit (Ps 44:23).
  3. 44:19 Our hearts have not turned back: Israel’s defeat was not caused by its lack of fidelity.
  4. 44:20 A place of jackals: following Israel’s defeat and exile (Ps 44:11–12), the land lies desolate, inhabited only by jackals, cf. Is 13:22; Jer 9:10; 10:22. Others take tannim as “sea monster” (cf. Ez 29:3; 32:2) and render: “you crushed us as you did the sea monster.”
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