Psalms 44 : 1 (NLV)
O God, we have heard with our ears. Our fathers have told us what work You did in their days, in the days long ago.
Psalms 44 : 2 (NLV)
With Your own hand You made the nations leave, and put our fathers in the land. You brought trouble upon the nations, and You spread them out.
Psalms 44 : 3 (NLV)
It was not by their sword that they took the land. Their own arm did not save them. But it was Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your face, for You favored them.
Psalms 44 : 4 (NLV)
You are my King, O God. Jacob wins because You say it must be so.
Psalms 44 : 5 (NLV)
Through You we will push away those who hate us. Through Your name we will walk over those who rise up against us.
Psalms 44 : 6 (NLV)
For I will not trust my bow, and my sword will not save me.
Psalms 44 : 7 (NLV)
But You have saved us from those who fight against us. You have put to shame those who hate us.
Psalms 44 : 8 (NLV)
In God we have had our pride all day long. And we will give thanks to Your name forever.
Psalms 44 : 9 (NLV)
But now You have turned from us and have put us to shame. You do not go out with our armies.
Psalms 44 : 10 (NLV)
You made us turn away from those who fight against us. And those who hate us have robbed us.
Psalms 44 : 11 (NLV)
You give us up to be eaten like sheep. You have spread us out among the nations.
Psalms 44 : 12 (NLV)
You sell Your people for nothing, and become no richer from their price.
Psalms 44 : 13 (NLV)
You have made us a shame to our neighbors. Those around us laugh and make fun of us.
Psalms 44 : 14 (NLV)
You have made us hated among the nations. The people laugh at us.
Psalms 44 : 15 (NLV)
All day long my shame is with me and has become too much for me.
Psalms 44 : 16 (NLV)
Those who talk against me, and who hate me are around me and want to punish me.
Psalms 44 : 17 (NLV)
All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You. We have not been false to Your agreement.
Psalms 44 : 18 (NLV)
Our heart has not turned away. And our steps have not turned from Your way.
Psalms 44 : 19 (NLV)
But You have crushed us in a place of wild dogs, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalms 44 : 20 (NLV)
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or put out our hands to a strange god,
Psalms 44 : 21 (NLV)
would not God find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalms 44 : 22 (NLV)
But we are killed all day long because of You. We are thought of as sheep that are ready to be killed.
Psalms 44 : 23 (NLV)
Awake, O Lord! Why do You sleep? Rise up! Do not turn away from us forever.
Psalms 44 : 24 (NLV)
Why do You hide Your face? Why do You forget our troubles and our suffering?
Psalms 44 : 25 (NLV)
For our soul is brought down to the dust. Our body holds on to the earth.
Psalms 44 : 26 (NLV)
Rise up and help us! Save us because of Your loving-kindness.
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