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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Psalm 44
44
Former Deliverances and Present Troubles
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.
1We have heard with our ears, O God,
our fathers have told us,
what work thou didst in their days,
in the times of old.
2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand,
and plantedst them;
how thou didst afflict the people,
and cast them out.
3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them:
but thy right hand, and thine arm,
and the light of thy countenance,
because thou hadst a favor unto them.
4Thou art my King, O God:
command deliverances for Jacob.
5Through thee will we push down our enemies:
through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6For I will not trust in my bow,
neither shall my sword save me.
7But thou hast saved us from our enemies,
and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8In God we boast all the day long,
and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame;
and goest not forth with our armies.
10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy:
and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat;
and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12Thou sellest thy people for nought,
and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors,
a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen,
a shaking of the head among the people.
15My confusion is continually before me,
and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16for the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth;
by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17All this is come upon us;
yet have we not forgotten thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18Our heart is not turned back,
neither have our steps declined from thy way;
19though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,
and covered us with the shadow of death.
20If we have forgotten the name of our God,
or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21shall not God search this out?
For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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Rom 8.36. Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long;
we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?
Arise, cast us not off for ever.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust:
our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26Arise for our help,
and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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