Psalm 44

Deus, auribus

  1. WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us what thou hast done in their time of old;
  2. How thou hast driven out the heathen with thy hand, and planted our fathers in; how thou hast destroyed the nations, and made thy people to flourish.
  3. For they gat not the land in possession through their own sword, neither was it their own arm that helped them;
  4. But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
  5. Thou art my King, O God; send help unto Jacob.
  6. Through thee will we overthrow our enemies, and in thy Name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
  7. For I will not trust in my bow, it is not my sword that shall help me;
  8. But it is thou that savest us from our enemies, and puttest them to confusion that hate us.
  9. We make our boast of God all day long, and will praise thy Name for ever.
  10. But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.
  11. Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies, so that they which hate us spoil for themselves.
  12. Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed to be slain, and art scattered us among the heathen.
  13. Thou sellest thy people for nought, and takest no money for them.
  14. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and a derision to them that are round about us.
  15. Thou makest us to be a by-word among the heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.
  16. My confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me;
  17. For the voice of the slanderer and reviler, for the enemy and avenger.
  18. All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten thee, nor dealt falsely in thy covenant.
  19. Our heart is not turned back, neither are our steps gone out of thy way;
  20. No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  21. If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and holden up our hands to any strange god, shall not God search it out?
  22. For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
  23. For thy sake also are we killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.
  24. Up, Lord, why sleepest thou? awake, and be not absent from us for ever.
  25. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our misery and trouble?
  26. For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the ground.
  27. Arise, help us, and deliver us for thy Name's sake.
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