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Psalms 44
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
We have heard with our ears, God;
For the choirmaster. A Maskil (note: Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142.) 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.
You drove out the nations with your hand,
With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword,
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.
Through you, we will push down our adversaries.
Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
For I will not trust in my bow,
For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me (note: Or give me victory; similarly in verse 7).
But you have saved us from our adversaries,
For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
In God we have made our boast all day long.
In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah
But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonour,
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
You make us turn back from the adversary.
You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
You have made us like sheep for food,
You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
You sell your people for nothing,
You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
You make us a reproach to our neighbours,
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
You make us a byword amongst the nations,
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
All day long my dishonour is before me,
All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses,
at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
All this has come on us,
All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
Our heart has not turned back,
Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals,
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals (note: Or serpents or dragons); You have covered us with deepest darkness.
If we have forgotten the name of our God,
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
won’t God search this out?
would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long.
Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered (note: Cited in Romans 8:36).
Why do you hide your face,
Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
For our soul is bowed down to the dust.
For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.