Psalm 44

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Redeem Us, O God

¹For the choirmaster. A Maskil^a of the sons of Korah.

We have heard with our ears, O God;

our fathers have told us

the work You did in their days,

in the days of old.

¹For the one directing. Of the sons of Korah. A Maskil. O God, with our ears we have heard; our fathers have recounted to us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

²With Your hand You drove out the nations

and planted our fathers there;

You crushed the peoples

and cast them out.

²You, with Your hand, dispossessed the nations, and You planted them; You afflicted the peoples and sent them forth.

³For it was not by their sword that they took the land;

their arm did not bring them victory.

It was by Your right hand,

Your arm, and the light of Your face,

because You favored them.

³For they did not gain possession of the land by their sword, and their arm did not bring salvation to them; but it was Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You delighted in them.

⁴You are my King, O God,

who ordains victories for Jacob.

⁴You are my King, O God; Command deliverances for Jacob.

⁵Through You we repel our foes;

through Your name we trample our enemies.

⁵Through You we push back our adversaries; by Your name we trample those rising against us.

⁶For I do not trust in my bow,

nor does my sword save me.^a

⁶For not in my bow do I trust, and my sword will not save me.

⁷For You save us from our enemies;

You put those who hate us to shame.

⁷For You have saved us from our adversaries, and those hating us, You have put to shame.

⁸In God we have boasted all day long,

and Your name we will praise forever.

Selah

⁸In God we have boasted all the day, and we will praise Your name forever. Selah

⁹But You have rejected and humbled us;

You no longer go forth with our armies.

⁹yet You have rejected us and put us to shame, and You do not go forth with our armies.

¹⁰You have made us retreat from the foe,

and those who hate us have plundered us.

¹⁰You make us turn back from the adversary, and those hating us have taken plunder for themselves.

¹¹You have given us up as sheep to be devoured;

You have scattered us among the nations.

¹¹You have appoint us for food like sheep, and among the nations You have scattered us.

¹²You sell Your people for nothing;

no profit do You gain from their sale.

¹²You sell Your people with no profit, and You do not gain increase by their price.

¹³You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,

a mockery and derision to those around us.

¹³You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

¹⁴You have made us a byword among the nations,

a laughingstock among^a the peoples.

¹⁴You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me,

and shame has covered my face,

¹⁵All the day, my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

¹⁶at the voice of the scorner and reviler,

because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

¹⁶at the voice of a reproacher and reviler, from the face of the enemy and avenger.

¹⁷All this has come upon us,

though we have not forgotten You

or betrayed Your covenant.

¹⁷All this has come upon us, and we have not forgotten You, and we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.

¹⁸Our hearts have not turned back;

our steps have not strayed from Your path.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back, nor our steps turned aside from Your path.

¹⁹But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals;^a

You have covered us with deepest darkness.

¹⁹Yet You have crushed us in the place of jackals, and You have covered over us with the shadow of death.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God

or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a strange god,

²¹would not God have discovered,

since He knows the secrets of the heart?

²¹would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

²²Yet for Your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.^a

²²Yet for Your sake we are killed all the day; we are reckoned as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping?

Arise! Do not reject us forever.

²³Rouse Yourself! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject us forever.

²⁴Why do You hide Your face

and forget our affliction and oppression?

²⁴Why do You hide Your face? You forget our affliction and our oppression.

²⁵For our soul has sunk to the dust;

our bodies cling to the earth.

²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly has clung to the ground.

²⁶Rise up; be our help!

Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

²⁶Rise up as helper to us, and redeem us for the sake of Your loving devotion!