Psalm 44:1-26 AMPC

[1] We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us [what] work You did in their days, in the days of old. [2] You drove out the nations with Your hand and it was Your power that gave [Israel] a home by rooting out the [heathen] peoples, but [Israel] You spread out. [3] For they got not the land [of Canaan] in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your countenance [did it], because You were favorable toward and did delight in them. [4] You are my King, O God; command victories and deliverance for Jacob (Israel). [5] Through You shall we push down our enemies; through Your name shall we tread them under who rise up against us. [6] For I will not trust in and lean on my bow, neither shall my sword save me. [7] But You have saved us from our foes and have put them to shame who hate us. [8] In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [9] But now You have cast us off and brought us to dishonor, and You go not out with our armies. [10] You make us to turn back from the enemy, and they who hate us take spoil for themselves. [11] You have made us like sheep intended for mutton and have scattered us in exile among the nations. [12] You sell Your people for nothing, and have not increased Your wealth by their price. [13] You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us. [14] You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the heads among the people. [15] My dishonor is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face [16] At the words of the taunter and reviler, by reason of the enemy and the revengeful. [17] All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten You, neither have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers]. [18] Our hearts are not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Your path, [19] Though You have distressingly broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with deep darkness, even with the shadow of death. [20] If we had forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god, [21] Would not God discover this? For He knows the secrets of the heart. [22] No, but for Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. [23] Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arouse Yourself, cast us not off forever! [24] Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and our oppression? [25] For our lives are bowed down to the dust; our bodies cleave to the ground. [26] Rise up! Come to our help, and deliver us for Your mercy's sake and because of Your steadfast love!