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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Psalms 44
44
A Prayer for Protection#Ps 44 Hebrew title: A poem by the clan of Korah.
1With our own ears we have heard it, O God —
our ancestors have told us about it,
about the great things you did in their time,
in the days of long ago:
2how you yourself drove out the heathen
and established your people in their land;
how you punished the other nations
and caused your own to prosper.
3Your people did not conquer the land with their swords;
they did not win it by their own power;
it was by your power and your strength,
by the assurance of your presence,
which showed that you loved them.
4You are my king and my God;
you give#44.4 Some ancient translations and my God; you give; Hebrew O God; give. victory to your people,
5and by your power we defeat our enemies.
6I do not trust in my bow
or in my sword to save me;
7but you have saved us from our enemies
and defeated those who hate us.
8We will always praise you
and give thanks to you for ever.
9But now you have rejected us and let us be defeated;
you no longer march out with our armies.
10You made us run from our enemies,
and they took for themselves what was ours.
11You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep;
you scattered us in foreign countries.
12You sold your own people for a small price
as though they had little value.#44.12 as… value; or and made no profit from the sale.
13Our neighbours see what you did to us,
and they mock us and laugh at us.
14You have made us an object of contempt among the nations;
they shake their heads at us in scorn.
15I am always in disgrace;
I am covered with shame
16from hearing the sneers and insults
of my enemies and those who hate me.
17All this has happened to us,
even though we have not forgotten you
or broken the covenant you made with us.
18We have not been disloyal to you;
we have not disobeyed your commands.
19Yet you left us helpless among wild animals;
you abandoned us in deepest darkness.
20If we had stopped worshipping our God
and prayed to a foreign god,
21you would surely have discovered it,
because you know our secret thoughts.
22 #
Rom 8.36
But it is on your account that we are being killed all the time,
that we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered.
23Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep?
Rouse yourself! Don't reject us for ever!
24Why are you hiding from us?
Don't forget our suffering and trouble!
25We fall crushed to the ground;
we lie defeated in the dust.
26Come to our aid!
Because of your constant love save us!
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Good News Bible. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.