Psalms 44
44
To the director: A maskil from the Korah family.
1God, we have heard about you.
Our fathers told us what you did in their lifetime.
They told us what you did long ago.
2With 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.
3It 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.
4God, you are my king.
Give the command and lead Jacob’s people to victory.
5We need your help to push our enemies back.
Only in your name can we trample those who attacked us.
6I don’t put my trust in my bow.
My sword cannot save me.
7You are the one who saved us from our enemies.
You are the one who put our enemies to shame.
8We have praised you all day long,
and we will praise your name forever. Selah
9But you left us and put us to shame.
You did not go with us into battle.
10You let our enemies push us back.
You let them take our wealth.
11You gave us away like sheep to be killed and eaten.
You scattered us among the nations.
12You sold your people for nothing.
You did not even argue over the price.
13You made us a joke to our neighbors.
They laugh and make fun of us.
14You made us one of the stories that people love to tell.
People all over the world laugh at us and shake their heads.
15All I can think about is my shame.
Just look at my face, and you will see it.
16All I can hear are the jokes and insults of my enemies,
as I watch them take their revenge.
17We have not forgotten you.
But you do all those things to us.
We did not break the agreement you gave us.
18We did not turn away from you.
We did not stop following you.
19But you crushed us in this home of jackals.
You left us in this place as dark as death.
20Did we forget the name of our God?
Did we pray to foreign gods?
21If we did, then God knows it,
because he knows our deepest secrets.
22All day long we died for you.
We are like sheep being led away to be killed.
23Lord, wake up!
Why are you sleeping?
Get up! Don’t ignore us forever!
24Why are you hiding from us?
Have you forgotten our pain and troubles?
25We have been pushed down into the dirt.
We are lying face down in the dust.#44:25 This shows that the people were being treated like slaves who must bow down to their masters.
26Get up and help us!
Rescue us because of your faithful love.
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Tehillim (Psa) 44
44
1For the leader. By the descendants of Korach. A maskil:
2God, we heard it with our ears;
our fathers told us about it —
a deed which you did in their days,
back in days of old.
3With your hand you drove out nations
to plant them in [the land],
you crushed peoples
to make room for them.
4For not by their own swords
did they conquer the land,
nor did their own arm
give them victory;
rather, it was your right hand,
your arm and the light of your face;
because you favored them.
5God, you are my king;
command complete victory for Ya‘akov.
6Through you we pushed away our foes,
through your name we trampled down our assailants.
7For I don’t rely on my bow,
nor can my sword give me victory.
8No, you saved us from our adversaries;
you put to shame those who hate us.
9We will boast in our God all day
and give thanks to your name forever. (Selah)
10Yet now you have thrust us aside and disgraced us;
you don’t march out with our armies.
11You make us retreat from the adversary,
and those who hate us plunder us at will.
12You have handed us over like sheep to be eaten
and scattered us among the nations.
13You sell your people for a pittance,
you don’t even profit on the sale.
14You make us an object for our neighbors to mock,
one of scorn and derision to those around us.
15You make us a byword among the nations;
the peoples jeer at us, shaking their heads.
16All day long my disgrace is on my mind,
and shame has covered my face
17at the sound of those who revile and insult,
at the sight of the enemy bent on revenge.
18Though all this came on us, we did not forget you;
we have not been false to your covenant;
19Our hearts have not turned back,
and our steps did not turn away from your path,
20though you pressed us into a lair of jackals
and covered us with death-dark gloom.
21If we had forgotten the name of our God
or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
22wouldn’t God have discovered this,
since he knows the secrets of the heart?
23For your sake we are put to death all day long,
we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.
24Wake up, Adonai! Why are you asleep?
Rouse yourself! Don’t thrust us off forever.
25Why are you turning your face away,
forgetting our pain and misery?
26For we are lying flat in the dust,
our bodies cling to the ground.
27Get up, and come to help us!
For the sake of your grace, redeem us!
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