Psalms 44:1 (BSB)
For the choirmaster. A Maskil 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.

Psalms 44:2 (BSB)
With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

Psalms 44:3 (BSB)
For 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.

Psalms 44:4 (BSB)
You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

Psalms 44:5 (BSB)
Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.

Psalms 44:6 (BSB)
For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.

Psalms 44:7 (BSB)
For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.

Psalms 44:8 (BSB)
In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah

Psalms 44:9 (BSB)
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

Psalms 44:10 (BSB)
You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

Psalms 44:11 (BSB)
You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

Psalms 44:12 (BSB)
You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.

Psalms 44:13 (BSB)
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

Psalms 44:14 (BSB)
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Psalms 44:15 (BSB)
All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,

Psalms 44:16 (BSB)
at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

Psalms 44:17 (BSB)
All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

Psalms 44:18 (BSB)
Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

Psalms 44:19 (BSB)
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Psalms 44:20 (BSB)
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

Psalms 44:21 (BSB)
would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

Psalms 44:22 (BSB)
Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Psalms 44:23 (BSB)
Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

Psalms 44:24 (BSB)
Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?

Psalms 44:25 (BSB)
For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

Psalms 44:26 (BSB)
Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
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