Psalm 44

We have heard with our ears, O God, our forefathers have told us,

the deeds you did in their days, in the days of old.

How with your hand you drove the peoples out and planted our forefathers in the land;

how you destroyed nations and made your people flourish.

For they did not take the land by their sword, nor did their arm win the victory for them;

but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you favored them.

You are my King and my God;

you command victories for Jacob.

Through you we pushed back our adversaries;

through your Name we trampled on those who rose up against us.

For I do not rely on my bow,

and my sword does not give me the victory.

Surely, you gave us victory over our adversaries

and put those who hate us to shame.

Every day we gloried in God,

and we will praise your Name for ever.

Nevertheless, you have rejected and humbled us

and do not go forth with our armies.

You have made us fall back before our adversary,

and our enemies have plundered us.

You have made us like sheep to be eaten

and have scattered us among the nations.

You are selling your people for a trifle

and are making no profit on the sale of them.

You have made us the scorn of our neighbors,

a mockery and derision to those around us.

You have made us a byword among the nations,

a laughing-stock among the peoples.

My humiliation is daily before me,

and shame has covered my face;

Because of the taunts of the mockers and blasphemers,

because of the enemy and avenger.

All this has come upon us;

yet we have not forgotten you, nor have we betrayed your covenant.

Our heart never turned back,

nor did our footsteps stray from your path;

Though you thrust us down into a place of misery,

and covered us over with deep darkness.

If we have forgotten the Name of our God,

or stretched out our hands to some strange god,

Will not God find it out?

for he knows the secrets of the heart.

Indeed, for your sake we are killed all the day long;

we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Awake, O Lord! why are you sleeping?

Arise! do not reject us for ever.

Why have you hidden your face

and forgotten our affliction and oppression?

We sink down into the dust;

our body cleaves to the ground.

Rise up, and help us,

and save us, for the sake of your steadfast love.