Psalm 44

⁴ You are my King, O God;
Command ^[b]victories for Jacob.
⁵ Through You we will push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.
⁶ For I will not trust in my bow,
Nor will my sword save me.
⁷ But You have saved us from our adversaries,
And You have put to shame those who hate us.
⁸ In God we have boasted all day long,
And we will give thanks to Your name forever. ^[c]Selah.

⁹ Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰ You cause us to turn back from the adversary;
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
¹¹ You give us as sheep ^[d]to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.
¹² You sell Your people ^[e]cheaply,
And have not ^[f]profited by their sale.
¹³ You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.
¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations,
A ^[g]laughingstock among the peoples.
¹⁵ All day long my dishonor is before me
And ^[h]my humiliation has overwhelmed me,
¹⁶ Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You,
And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back,
And our steps have not deviated from Your way,
¹⁹ Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals
And covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our ^[i]hands to a strange god,
²¹ Would not God find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
²² But for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
²³ Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not reject us forever.
²⁴ Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵ For our soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.
²⁶ Rise up, be our help,
And redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.