44:1  To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us,
The deeds You did in their days,
In days of old:

44:2  You drove out the nations with Your hand,
But them You planted;
You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.

44:3  For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them;
But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
Because You favored them.

44:4  You are my King, O God;
Command victories for Jacob.

44:5  Through You we will push down our enemies;
Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.

44:6  For I will not trust in my bow,
Nor shall my sword save me.

44:7  But You have saved us from our enemies,
And have put to shame those who hated us.

44:8  In God we boast all day long,
And praise Your name forever. Selah

44:9  But You have cast us off and put us to shame,
And You do not go out with our armies.

44:10  You make us turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

44:11  You have given us up like sheep intended for food,
And have scattered us among the nations.

44:12  You sell Your people for next to nothing,
And are not enriched by selling them.

44:13  You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and a derision to those all around us.

44:14  You make us a byword among the nations,
A shaking of the head among the peoples.

44:15  My dishonor is continually before me,
And the shame of my face has covered me,

44:16  Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
Because of the enemy and the avenger.

44:17  All this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.

44:18  Our heart has not turned back,
Nor have our steps departed from Your way;

44:19  But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals,
And covered us with the shadow of death.

44:20  If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,

44:21  Would not God search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.

44:22  Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

44:23  Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Arise! Do not cast us off forever.

44:24  Why do You hide Your face,
And forget our affliction and our oppression?

44:25  For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
Our body clings to the ground.

44:26  Arise for our help,
And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.