Psalms 44
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For the Music Director. A Contemplative Maskil of the sons of Korah.
1We have heard with our ears, O God;
our fathers have told us
what deeds You performed in their days,
in the days of old:
2You drove out the nations with Your hand, # Ps 78:55
but them You planted; # Ex 15:17
You afflicted the peoples,
but them You set free.
3For they did not take possession of the land by their own sword, # Jos 24:12
nor did their own arm save them;
but it was Your right hand, and Your arm,
and the light of Your countenance, because You favored them. # Dt 7:7–8
4You are my King, O God; # Ps 74:12
command victories for Jacob.
5Through You we will push down our enemies; # Dt 33:17
through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us. # Ps 60:12
6For I will not trust in my bow,
nor can my sword save me. # Hos 1:7
7But You have saved us from our enemies,
and have put to shame those who hate us.
8In God we have boasted continually, # Ps 34:2
and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah
9But You have rejected us # Ps 60:1; 74:1 and put us to shame,
and you do not go out with our armies. # Ps 60:10
10You make us turn back from the enemy, # Jos 7:8
and those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves. # Lev 26:17
11You have given us up like sheep for slaughter,
and have scattered us among the nations. # Dt 4:27; 28:64
12You sell Your people for a low price, # Dt 32:30; Jer 15:13
and do not increase Your wealth by their sale.
13You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
a scorn and a derision to those around us. # Ps 79:4; 80:6
14You make us a byword among the nations, # Jer 24:9
a shaking of the head among the peoples. # 2Ki 19:21
15My disgrace is continually before me,
and shame has covered my face # Ps 69:7
16at the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
at the presence of the enemy and avenger. # Ps 8:2
17All this has come upon us;
yet we have not forgotten You, # Da 9:13
nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
18Our heart has not turned back,
nor have our steps departed from Your way; # Ps 119:51, 157
19Yet You have broken us in the place of jackals
and covered us with the shadow of death. # Job 3:5; Ps 23:4
20If we had forgotten the name of our God
or stretched out our hands to a foreign god, # Job 11:13; Ps 68:31
21would not God search this out? # Jer 17:10
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. # Ro 8:36
23Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? # Ps 7:6; 78:65
Arise! Do not cast us off forever!
24Why do You hide Your face? # Job 13:24
Why do you forget our affliction and our oppression?
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust; # Ps 119:25
our body clings to the ground.
26Arise, be our help.
Redeem us # Ps 25:22 for the sake of Your lovingkindness!
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