Psalms 44

MLV(i) 1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of long-ago. 2 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
3 Because they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm and the light of your countenance, because you were favorable to them.
4 You are my King, O God. Command deliverance for Jacob. 5 Through you we will push down our adversaries. Through your name we will tread them under who rise up against us.
6 Because I will not trust in my bow, nor will my sword save me. 7 Because you have saved us from our adversaries and have put them to shame who hate us.
8 We have made our boast all the day long in God and we will give thanks to your name everlasting. Selah.
9 But now you have cast off and brought us to dishonor and do not go forth with our armies. 10 You make us to turn back from the adversary. And those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
11 You have made us like sheep for food and have scattered us among the nations. 12 You sell your people for nothing and have not increased by their price.
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a ridicule to those who are all around us. 14 You make us a proverb among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
15 All the day long my dishonor is before me and the shame of my face has covered me, 16 from the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, because of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, nor have we dealt falsely in your covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from your way, 19 that you have greatly broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god, 21 will not God search this out? Because he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 We are killed all the day long because of belief upon you. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake, why do you sleep, O Lord? Arise, cast not off forever. 24 Why do you hide your face and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 Because our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground. 26 Rise up for our help and redeem us for your loving kindness' sake.