Psalms 44 : 1 (ERVEN)
To the director: A maskil from the Korah family. God, we have heard about you. Our fathers told us what you did in their lifetime. They told us what you did long ago.
Psalms 44 : 2 (ERVEN)
With your great power you took this land from other people, and you gave it to us. You crushed those foreigners and forced them to leave this land.
Psalms 44 : 3 (ERVEN)
It was not our fathers' swords that took the land. It was not their strong arms that brought them victory. It was your power. It was because you accepted them and smiled down on them.
Psalms 44 : 4 (ERVEN)
God, you are my king. Give the command and lead Jacob's people to victory.
Psalms 44 : 5 (ERVEN)
We need your help to push our enemies back. Only in your name can we trample those who attacked us.
Psalms 44 : 6 (ERVEN)
I don't put my trust in my bow. My sword cannot save me.
Psalms 44 : 7 (ERVEN)
You are the one who saved us from our enemies. You are the one who put our enemies to shame.
Psalms 44 : 8 (ERVEN)
We have praised you all day long, and we will praise your name forever. Selah
Psalms 44 : 9 (ERVEN)
But you left us and put us to shame. You did not go with us into battle.
Psalms 44 : 10 (ERVEN)
You let our enemies push us back. You let them take our wealth.
Psalms 44 : 11 (ERVEN)
You gave us away like sheep to be killed and eaten. You scattered us among the nations.
Psalms 44 : 12 (ERVEN)
You sold your people for nothing. You did not even argue over the price.
Psalms 44 : 13 (ERVEN)
You made us a joke to our neighbors. They laugh and make fun of us.
Psalms 44 : 14 (ERVEN)
You made us one of the stories that people love to tell. People all over the world laugh at us and shake their heads.
Psalms 44 : 15 (ERVEN)
All I can think about is my shame. Just look at my face, and you will see it.
Psalms 44 : 16 (ERVEN)
All I can hear are the jokes and insults of my enemies, as I watch them take their revenge.
Psalms 44 : 17 (ERVEN)
We have not forgotten you. Yet you do all those things to us. We did not break the agreement you gave us.
Psalms 44 : 18 (ERVEN)
We did not turn away from you. We did not stop following you.
Psalms 44 : 19 (ERVEN)
But you crushed us in this home of jackals. You left us in this place as dark as death.
Psalms 44 : 20 (ERVEN)
Did we forget the name of our God? Did we pray to foreign gods?
Psalms 44 : 21 (ERVEN)
If we did, then God knows it, because he knows our deepest secrets.
Psalms 44 : 22 (ERVEN)
All day long we died for you. We are like sheep being led away to be killed.
Psalms 44 : 23 (ERVEN)
Lord, wake up! Why are you sleeping? Get up! Don't ignore us forever!
Psalms 44 : 24 (ERVEN)
Why are you hiding from us? Have you forgotten our pain and troubles?
Psalms 44 : 25 (ERVEN)
We have been pushed down into the dirt. We are lying face down in the dust.
Psalms 44 : 26 (ERVEN)
Get up and help us! Rescue us because of your faithful love.
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