Psalms 44 << || >>

	44:1	To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
	44:2	thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and didst plant them; thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
	44:3	For they obtained not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favor to them.
	44:4	Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
	44:5	Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name we will tread them under that rise up against us.
	44:6	For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
	44:7	But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
	44:8	In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
	44:9	But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
	44:10	Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us plunder for themselves.
	44:11	Thou hast given us like sheep for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
	44:12	Thou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase by their price.
	44:13	Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us.
	44:14	Thou makest us a by-word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
	44:15	My confusion continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
	44:16	For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
	44:17	All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
	44:18	Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
	44:19	Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death.
	44:20	If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
	44:21	Will not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
	44:22	Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
	44:23	Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast not off for ever.
	44:24	Why hidest thou thy face, forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
	44:25	For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
	44:26	Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.